Edition Documentation
Print Edition Record Number 10 / Art Inventory Number SG-47
Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: A Basically Red Nude
Date: September 28, 1975
Medium: Woodcut
Paper: variable sizes, most approx. 24.5 x 19 inches
Image: 14.5" x 11"
Ink: Etching inks unidentified, modified for relief printing, four colors: orange, red, silver, green.
ABOUT THIS PRINT
Nude woman facing right on striped coverlet. Woodcut in four colors (orange, red, silver, green). Edition of 30 signed, numbered prints.
PROCESS DESCRIPTION
Four woodblocks employed to print the four colors on an etching press. This woodcut went through many variations, thus an unusually high number of Trial Proofs, many of which were then further modified with graphite and/or crayon drawing before and after edition printing,
EDITION RECORD
30 edition impressions numbered 1/30-30/30
4 artist's proofs
34 trial proofs - many color variations
Hand printed by: The Artist
Printed at the Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska
- Subject Matter: Figurative