"Minnesota Sumac" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print cf-vendor-bumbeckd including an "Artist of the

including an "Artist of the Year

by Thomas Carleton (1925 – 2012)

fancy dinner party or a couple strolling along Newbury Street

He studied with Henry Hensche

"Minnesota Sumac" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print cf-vendor-bumbeckd including an "Artist of the11" x 13" 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