Print of the Day!! Wed, Sept. 27, 2023 is by Gordon L. Mortensen (born 1938). "Sherborn Woods", color reduction woodcut, 1989, 25/130.
Print of the Day!! Wednesday, September 27, 2023 is by color reduction relief printmaker Gordon L. Mortensen (born 1938). Check out our on-line exhibition at: OnPaper.art ? ?
"Sherborn Woods" is a relief print, a color reduction woodcut done in 1989. This impression is pencil signed, titled, dated, and editioned "35/130" by the artist in the lower margin. The image measures 22 x 29-7/8 inches. It was printed by the artist in a published edition of 130 plus proofs using 28 colors and 27 press runs on a sheet of ivory wove Rives Heavyweight paper that measures 24-1/4 x 29-7/8 inches. Our inventory number for this work is 23377. This large hand-printed reduction color relief by Gordon Louis Mortensen is available from the gallery for $700.00. Other impressions are available. Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law. Time payments can be arranged. Contact the gallery for any condition or other questions.
This vivid autumnal landscape captures the brilliant golden fall colors and cool shadows along a pathway in the Town Forest of Sherborn, Massachusetts. According to the website for Sherborn, the town has about 1,000 acres of public-access land, about half of which is Town Forest. The land is mostly wooded and consists of a series of parcels running in a crescent belt from the Charles River in the southeast to the near the Framingham border in the northwest. The public has free access to all parts of the forest and numerous trails are available for walking or riding.
"Sherborn Woods" is a large composition for this exacting reductive medium, sometimes called a "suicide print" because there is no going back as the block disappears. This image is 22 x 30 inches, and required 27 separate press runs to create the 28 colors used.
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Gordon Mortensen commented on the reduction process he uses: "Only one woodblock is used. On it an image is drawn in India ink. Before the first color is printed, any areas that are to remain unprinted (white or the color of the paper) are cut away from the surface of the block. Then an oil base ink is used to print the first color on all of the sheets of paper that are to be used for the edition and proofs.
After the first printing the block is again cut, removing any surface of the block that is to remain the first color in the finished print. After each subsequent color is printed, the block is cut, the process continues until the print is finished and most of the surface of the block is cut away.
Born near Arnegard, North Dakota on April 27, 1938, Gordon Mortensen received his BFA degree with Honors in 1964 from the Minneapolis School of Art (now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design) and he was enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul between 1969 and 1972. Originally a portrait painter, Mortensen almost entirely abandoned that media for reduction woodcutting, achieving the creative freedom he desired. He is one of the few practicing artists of this method in the United States.?During this transitional time, he taught briefly at the Saint Paul Art Museum, the Rochester Art Center, and the Minnetonka Art Center in Wayzata. Early in his printmaking career, Mortensen circulated his color woodcuts via exhibitions in the Midwest. His work reached a wider audience in 1976 when he participated in the Brooklyn Museum National Print Exhibition and the following year he joined the Boston Printmakers. To purchase this work, see other works, or read a biography for Gordon Louis Mortensen use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/1661/Mortensen/Gordon
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