Medium: Carborundum mezzotint and burin engraving Dimensions: 4 x 6 inches (image) 7 7/8 x 9 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1953 Date finished: 2019 Edition: of 25
Medium: Mezzotint Dimensions: 10 x 4 inches (image) 14 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1953 Date finished: 2005 Edition: of 75
Medium: Mezzotint Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches (image) 18 7/8 x 23 7/8 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1953 Date finished: 2002 Edition: of 75
Medium: Mezzotint Dimensions: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (image) 8 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1953 Date finished: 2016 Edition: of 50
Medium: Mezzotint Dimensions: 7 x 8 3/4 inches (image) Artist details: American, 1953 Date finished: 1982 Edition: of 75
Recommended by Nikki (Art Photographer / Marketing and Exhibitions Specialist):
Carol Wax is an expert mezzotint printmaker (a time-consuming process that uses extreme lights and darks to build up an image on a copperplate). In this scene fire, twine, and darkness (with time as a witness) play an important role in Wax’s narrative. To feed the light, the twine must burn, but there is a finite amount of the consumable resource before the flame inevitably goes out and it becomes dark.
Michael Spafford
IX. Stealing the Jewel-Encrusted Belt from Hippolyte, the Queen of the Amazons
Series: 36 Labors of Hercules Medium: Oil-based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 2010 Edition: AP
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935 - 2022 Date finished: 1986 Edition: AP
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935 - 2022 Date finished: 1986 Edition: AP
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 1986 Edition: AP
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 2018 Date of plate: 1986 Edition: of 10 Printer: Sidereal Fine Art Press Condition: SFAP Chop in the lower right hand corner.
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 1986 Edition: AP
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 1986 Edition: of 5
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 1986 Edition: AP
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 2018 Date of plate: 1986 Edition: of 10 Printer: Sidereal Fine Art Press Condition: SFAP Chop in the lower right hand corner.
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 2018 Date of plate: 1986 Edition: of 10 Printer: Sidereal Fine Art Press Condition: SFAP Chop in the lower right hand corner.
Series: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Medium: Oil based woodblock print on cream paper Dimensions: 15 x 15 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1935- 2022 Date finished: 2018 Date of plate: 1986 Edition: of 10 Printer: Sidereal Fine Art Press Condition: SFAP Chop in the lower right hand corner.
Recommended by Rebecca (Gallery Associate):
This series, '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Michael Spafford, is the artist's interpretation of a poem by Wallace Stevens. For this piece, the poem reads: "I was of three minds / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds." Spafford was a beloved Northwest artist and a teacher at the University of Washington for more than 30 years. His work focused on abstracting mythology into compressed, black and white forms. 'I Was of Three Minds' showcases Spafford's powerful simplicity, where the blackbirds intersect in the figure's mind at the point of a triangle, visible only because of the white grid crossing the black face. It is clear yet complex, perfectly echoing the poem.
