Small Prints 16 #2 by Sandy Walker
Small Prints 16 #2
Sandy Walker
Title
Small Prints 16 #2
Artist
Sandy Walker
1942 - PRESENT (biography)Year
2016
Technique
woodcut
Image Size
8 15/16 x 5 15/16" image size
Signature
pencil initialed, lower right
Edition Size
5 of 10
Annotations
pencil dated and editioned
Reference
Michitsch 96, illustrated on page 89, Sandy Walker: The Woodblock Prints, 1967-2023: A Catalogue Raisonné
Paper
cream Rives Lightweight wove
State
published
Publisher
artist and Cinder Press, Petaluma, CA
Inventory ID
SAWA117
Price
$350.00
Description
In her essay for the catalogue Sandy Walker Woodblock Prints produced for an exhibition of the same title, Katy Kline elucidates Walker’s choice of medium and subject: His woodblock prints bring together in a particularly fertile symbiosis the life forces of the artist, his subject and his materials. The wooden block is itself a piece of nature. Its grain constitutes a record of the flow and swell of many years and is emblematic of the underlying rhythms of the natural world. Like many earlier and often Romantic artists, Walker venerates the tree as a potent totem of independent grandeur. He is aware, however, of the poignant irony by which a tree has been sacrificed to furnish both his block and the paper on which he prints.