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"Autumn Color" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print24" 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

30" x 22" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

12" x 10" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

particularly of the North Shore

Though he spends as much time as possible immersing himself in the out of doors

Having come to Boston from Russia as a young adult

His paintings are represented by numerous corporate and private collections

he later turned to landscapes in the tradition fo the Hudson Valley School but with a more contemporary painting style

and throughout the 20th century developed a style that combines realism and abstraction with a dash of surrealistic allegory

Acrylic on Canvas

it is unmistakably a woodcut with rich layered colors and wood grain textures

he often went painting along the Brandywine River

His works have hung in The Sarasota Museum of Art