"Red River of the North" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-sandersj who painted simple big industrial

who painted simple big industrial scenes in 1950's Birmingham

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10" x 8" Unframed

"Red River of the North" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-sandersj who painted simple big industrial26 x 20" 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