Summer Sunset - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen carrol Parrish Art Museum

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Working in oil with a delicate palette and subtle tonality

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Italy has offered the artist a lifetime invitation to participate their exhibitions: The Slater Museum in Norwich

Summer Sunset - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen carrol Parrish Art Museum21 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