Edition Documentation
Print Edition Record Number 18 / Art Inventory Number SG-53

Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: Watching TV
Date: February 1976
Medium: Woodcut
Paper: Sekishu White 13 x 20 inches
Image: 11 x 16 3/8 inches
Ink: Etching ink (probably GCI) mixes:
light blue: Thalo blue, black and white
dark blue: Thalo blue and black

ABOUT THIS PRINT
Viewers feet on rumpled bed, TV in the corner.

Image adopted from drawings done in the mobile home trailer in Anchorage. Woodcut cut in late 1975, prints made in February 1976. All production work was done at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska.

PROCESS DESCRIPTION
Two woodblocks, cut in late 1975. Production work completed in February 1976. Prior to inking with brayer, a darker mix of Thalo Blue and Etching Black inks, diluted to a wash with kerosene, was rubbed all over the dark-blue block to produce somewhat unpredictable background tone. Wash followed by inking the block in normal fashion with brayers for dark blue color mixes. Light blue was on block #2.

EDITION RECORD
10 edition impressions numbered 1/10 through 10/10
3 artist's proofs (one of the three A.P. to Visual Arts Center of Alaska for Record Impression)
3 trial proofs
1 working proof

Hand printed by the artist
Printed at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska