Edition Documentation
Print Edition Record Number 24 / Art Inventory Number SG-330

Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: She's Dying of Cancer (Bald After Brain Surgery)
Date: 1976
Medium: Woodcut
Paper: Goyu paper, size 14.25" x 10.25" and 11.75" x 9"
Image: 10 x 7.25"
Ink: Watercolors and rice paste, eight colors employed.

ABOUT THIS PRINT
Started in a japanese woodcut printmaking workshop with Toshi Yoshida, at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska. The image was taken from a news story on TV, about this woman who had part of her brain surgically removed. Quick sketches were made from the TV, and the printimage was born. (Artist's note: Toshi Yoshida was a wonderful artist and excellent instructor.)

PROCESS DESCRIPTION
Inks and application, paper registration and printing by hand were learned and accomplished in the traditional Japanese woodblock technique. Using brushes, water, paste, Japanese baren. Three woodblocks. Knives sharpened better than ever following Yoshida's methods.

EDITION RECORD
Not editioned.
Three trial proofs numbered 1, 2 and 3.
One artist's proof.

Hand printed by: The Artist
Printed at The Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage