"Verde River" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen marrinan 32 x 24" Unframed Woodcut

32 x 24" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

18" x 22" Unframed Etching on Paper

and the ancient world of Alexander the Great

16 X 20" Unframed

"Verde River" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen marrinan 32 x 24" Unframed Woodcut34 x 28" 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