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Stump

2000

Neil Welliver

(American, 1929–2005)
published by

Alexandre Fine Art, Inc.

Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Nishinouchi Japanese wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 91 x 88.4 cm (35 13/16 x 34 13/16 in.); Image: 76.2 x 76.4 cm (30 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund 2002.74
Edition
100
Impression
22
Copyright
© Neil Welliver
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

A full-time resident of Lincolnville, Maine, for more than twenty-five years, Welliver has made the rugged coastal landscape his subject. His art follows in the American landscape tradition which artists like Albert Pinkham Ryder and Winslow Homer developed in the late 19th century and Marsden Hartley and John Marin continued in the early 20th century. In his images of quiet, dense woods and glistening streams, Welliver communicates nature's closeness and singularity. He often contemplates a single element in the landscape. Here, a stump, engulfed by ferns and mosses with glimpses of saplings in the background, indicates the artist's concern with nature in its various stages of birth and decay. Welliver's woodcuts follow in the tradition of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. They are printed using water-based inks, which give the layers of color a delicate, translucent quality. Trained in Japanese woodcut print methods, Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi assists Welliver in his production of color woodcuts. This technique requires a separate block for each color; Stump needed twenty-seven intricately cut blocks.
A square color woodcut depicts a large, moss-covered tree stump centered in a dense forest. Center, a conical gray and brown stump is topped with vibrant green moss. Foreground, layered strokes of green ferns spread across the forest floor. Behind, slender gray trunks and a network of thin, brown branches create a mottled, tangled background. Small patches of green leaves appear scattered among the repetitive, vertical lines of the forest landscape.

Stump

2000

Neil Welliver, Alexandre Fine Art, Inc.

(American, 1929–2005)
America

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