Edition Documentation
Print Edition Record Number 4 / Art Inventory Number SG-328

Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: Woman
Date: Summer May 1975
Medium: Relief & Etching
Paper: Copperplate paper, 10.5 x 10"
Image: 5.75" x 5.75"
Ink: Unidentified etching inks, colors: black, red, blue, yellow and silver.

ABOUT THIS PRINT
At the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, artist Ron Viol was the printmaking studio manager when Spence Guerin started working there in 1975. Ron was doing some print images created from "puzzle-cut" pieces of etching plates, inked separately, combined together into one totally inked image composition and printed in one run through the etching press. "Woman" was created in that way.

Related images: Woman II, SG-842 and Woman III, SG-843

PROCESS DESCRIPTION
"Woman" is composed of seven pieces of zinc etching plate cut to fit together. Two pieces are inked intaglio-style, wiped as an etching. Two pieces are "rainbow" rolled relief with silver and yellow. One piece is light blue ink wiped thin. One piece is relief inked with red. And one piece – the lower body of the woman – wears no ink at all. All of the pieces were placed together and printed in one run through the etching press.

EDITION RECORD
Edition of 10 impressions, numbered 1/10 - 10/10.
Three artist's proofs, not numbered.
Six trial proofs.

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