"Stillwater Cove" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen portrait 23" X 31" Hand made

23" X 31" Hand made and hand painted framed with gold leaf inner liner

by Anne Bridge

a bit of Pop

building on the foundation he gained with Robert Hoffmann and feeling that the way to gain knowledge of landscape painting was through portrait painters

Thematically

"Stillwater Cove" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen portrait 23" X 31" Hand made17 x 24" Unframed Woodcut on Paper Gordon Mortensen (b. 1938, American) is one of the best known reduction woodcut print artists working in the U. S today. He works from watercolor studies to understand the color dynamics needed for the woodcut. The artist uses up to sixty four colors and takes as long as three months to create the woodblock image. Although the final outcome has a painterly feel, it is unmistakably a woodcut with rich layered colors