Vineyard - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen oil 22" x 20" Framed

22" x 20" Framed

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

indeed these scapes seem developed with a unified dignity

36" x 36" Framed

James frequently paints urban subject matter

Vineyard - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen oil 22" x 20" Framed22 x 30" 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