Springtime, Carmel Meadows- Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen tom brady Parrish Art Museum

Parrish Art Museum

48" x 54" Framed

21" x 28" Unframed

8" X 14" Unframed

Carol was first inspired to become a painter when as a child she became fascinated by the plein air painters her family encountered on vacations in seaside Gloucester

Springtime, Carmel Meadows- Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen tom brady Parrish Art Museum15" 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