Gordon Mortensen (California, b. 1938), "Late Afternoon", 1974, signed and numbered reduction woodcut

sight: 18.5 x 24.5 in., frame: 27.5 x 33 in.

When the artist uses only one block, he prints the first color for the whole edition size after he finished the carving of one image. Then he must re-carve the second image into the remainder of the same block, apply the second color and print over the impressions of the first step. Thus for a 10 color print, the artist has to carve and print ten times on the same media. At the end of this process, the woodblock is reduced to the modest remains used to print the last color.

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