"September in Roosevelt Park" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Brant Point Lighthouse 9" X12 unframed

9" X12 unframed

Lowe Art Museum

12" X 16" Unframed

she attended Bershire School of Contemporary Art in North Adams

private collectors

"September in Roosevelt Park" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Brant Point Lighthouse 9" X12 unframedGordon 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 and wood grain textures. His early