Del Monte Dunes - Fine Art Woodblock Print by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-fischerm " he was a member

" he was a member of no "school" and basically was self-taught

By Hagop Keledjian

Commissioned to paint Tuscany from a private collector

He was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the Boston Society of Water Color Painters

he painted all through his high school years but focused mostly on photography until 2014

Del Monte Dunes - Fine Art Woodblock Print by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-fischerm " he was a member26" x 40" 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