Desert Vista by Frances Gearhart

Desert Vista by Frances Gearhart

Desert Vista

Frances Gearhart

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Title

Desert Vista

 
Artist
Year
c. 1930  
Technique
color block print 
Image Size
8 3/8 x 6 7/8" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
about 50 
Annotations
titled in pencil in lower left 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory wove Japanese 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
SYME103 
Price
$6,000.00 
Description

Desert Vista is example of Gearhart’s favorite subjects: the deserts, the valleys, the hills, and the mountains of the Western United States. Here she created the illusion of a vast landscape within a small format by using the openings between desert rock formations to preview the distant San Jacinto Mountains located in Riverside County in southern California. The range has fifty-nine name mountains, the highest and most prominent of which is San Jacinto Peak. Gearhart used a linoleum key-block, printed with black oil-based ink, to create most of the linear elements for this landscape and then hand brushed color on a tone block. As a result of this direct approach, each impression will vary in color to some degree.

 
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