"Autumn Color" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print Tree 15" x 22" Unframed Woodcut

15" x 22" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

but his intent is not photo realism

and continues to do so

For his personal work

"Autumn Color" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print Tree 15" x 22" Unframed Woodcut24" X 32" 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