"Pinaleno Mountains" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Boston Public Garden Although she enjoyed painting abstracts

Although she enjoyed painting abstracts in her teens

her talent was acknowledged with an award of the gold medal for Merite et devouement francais au titre des arts in 2002

14" x 20" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

his oeuvre

"Pinaleno Mountains" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Boston Public Garden Although she enjoyed painting abstracts21 x 14" 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