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"September in Roosevelt Park" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon MortensenGordon 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

Marrinan has been collected nationally as well as internationally including London

32" X 26" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

Boston Art Club

37 x 24" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

Last year he had a painting in the "Celebration of Art from Harrow School" exhibition at Christies Great Rooms in London

poetically recasting everyday scenes in various two-dimensional mediums

full time year round for five years

ran a private school of traditional realism painting in Sea Cliff

eventually turned to fine art painting full time

Many of his paintings are awash in the light that exists for only a short period of time in the morning or late afternoon

10" x 14" Unframed

After a long period of creating trompe l’oeil pieces and designing large scale sets for theater