"Massachusetts Autumn" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print Tree 19" x 22" Unframed Etching

19" x 22" Unframed Etching on Paper

He also taught at the Worcester Art Museum from 1965 to 1975

17" x 20" Unframed Etching on Paper

His instructors included British painter Michael Mayer

MA in 1925 and was a veteran of World War II

"Massachusetts Autumn" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print Tree 19" x 22" Unframed Etching22" 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