Edition Documentation
SG Edition Record Number 17 / Art Inventory Number SG-45

Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: International Airport – Neil's malemute gone to inquire after a flight.
Date: October 1975 - January 1976
Medium: Woodcut
Paper: Sekishu white 13" x 24"
Image: 10" x 20"
Ink: 12 colors

ABOUT THIS PRINT
At Anchorage's International Airport, a dog relieves itself near the taxi queue. Colorful plane tails can be seen over the departures ramp. The dog, a malemute, belonged to Neil Meglitsch.
This edition of 25 prints was begun and cut, October and November 1975. Printed January-February 1976. Completed February 3, 1976.

PROCESS DESCRIPTION
This woodcut was printed with 12 colors, including four grays, on six birch blocks.

In all artist proofs and in the prints #1-6, there is a line which the artist eliminated from prints #7-25. It is a gray-black line on top of the white and blue airplane tail to the right of the red airplane tail. Also, in prints #7-25, the black was made blacker.

EDITION RECORD
Three artists proofs
Four state proofs, black & white on Tableau paper
Four color proofs on Tableau paper (4/4 is on Sekishu paper)
Seven trial proofs
Edition: 25 prints, numbered 1/25 - 25/25

Hand printed by: The Artist / Assisted by: None
Printed at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska

Exhibition History:
Artist's proof submitted to State Arts Council Competition, January 30, 1976