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Fall by Gordon Louis Mortensen

Fall by Gordon Louis Mortensen

Fall

Gordon Louis Mortensen

Title

Fall

 
Artist

Gordon Louis Mortensen

  1938 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2002  
Technique
color reduction woodcut printed in 40 colors with 38 press runs 
Image Size
22 x 30" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
5 of 100  
Annotations
titled, lower left; dated after the signature 
Reference
 
Paper
white wove Arches 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
GOMO308 
Price
SOLD
Description

This vividly colored landscape captures the stunning light and vivid colors of autumn. Mortensen is a master of the reduction woodcut method carving numerous blocks and using a multiplicity of color to create a painterly scene that has amazing depth. Fall evokes the coolness of twilight when the lingering sunlight sets the foliage ablaze.

Gordon Mortensen commented on the process he uses:

"Only one woodblock is used. On it an image is drawn in India ink. Before the first color is printed, any areas that are to remain unprinted (white or the color of the paper) are cut away from the surface of the block. Then an oil base ink is used to print the first color on all of the sheets of paper that are to be used for the edition and proofs.

After the first printing the block is again cut, removing any surface of the block that is to remain the first color in the finished print. After each subsequent color is printed, the block is cut, the process continues until the print is finished and most of the surface of the block is cut away."