Perfect Press Art Gallery -
Close-up and Technical
"Little C-Square" - woodcut and intaglio print.
Catalog No. 77 0603 198
Price: $125 unframed $200 framed.
Contact the artist by E-mail
ritchie@seanet.com
- Technique: Intaglio, woodcut
- Five colors, variable
- 6 3/4 x 5 in. image
- 12 x 9 in sheet
- Date of origin 6/3/77
- Edition: 98
- Produced in Seattle at Triangle Studios
- Paper: Hodamura & Japanese etching on Van Gelder Zonen
- Inks: Smith, Weber blacks, Winsor-Newton watercolor
- Printed by the artist
- Signed Lower right
- Exhibited: Seattle Art Museum Inv. '77, also artist's shows.
- Collections of Chew, Rabel, Stubbe, Bloedel, Ritchie family,
Tomura, Weathers
- Artist's description: "The original composition is in
the silver-point drawings known as the Little C-Squares. I used
two plates. One was fir plywood and the other was pierced, etched
copper. Color sheets were printed in sosaku-hanga (creative Japanese
woodblock technique). These prints were then laminated in Chine-colle
method in the intaglio printing stage."
- Artist's narrative: "The C-squares were part of the series
in which the tool of the architect and engineer--the T-square--was
warped, bent and twisted into a variety of shapes and put in different
settings. Nineteen Seventy-seven was the year of the Great
Wave Square temporary sculpture at Bumbershoot,
and several other works on this theme. The advantage of sosaku-hanga,
is ts similarity to watercolor in all possible variations; with
it I could get a variety of colors in the foreground (bottom)
area of the print. No two of these prints are exactly alike, but
almost. The bent 'C' form of the C-square is debossed by using
a pierced, cut-out area in the thin copper that I used for the
etching. Set on the copper plate was a ribbon of thin wood veneer,
and that's what I used to carry the waterbased yellow color."