"Verde River" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen marrinan 23" X 36" Unframed Woodcut

23" X 36" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

24" X 30" Oil on Canvas

18" x 22" Unframed Etching on Paper

Unframed Etching on Paper

I believe that the true measure of a painting’s value is whether the viewer has an immediate and intuitive connection on some level when they see it

"Verde River" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen marrinan 23" X 36" Unframed Woodcut34 x 28" 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