1963 - Four Pheasants
I lived on my father's farm near Wapato in the Yakima Valley until I went to college, and in the winter, pheasants would fly up into the leafless trees to roost at night. At dusk I could see them profiled against the gray sky. Hoar frost covered the ground in the winter and it was gray everywhere in the valley. In art school learned screen printing from Reino Randall at Central Washington State College, and I made serigraph prints for my graduate show in the spring. The original I used for this stamp is 19"
X 14", printed in the colors of gray, brown, orange, green, on white 22" X 18" sulfite paper. The artiststamp, left, was made from No. 5 from an edition of 15.
Of those 15, I know the whereabouts of only this one. It's in the private collection of John Leonard of Seattle. You can visit his Web page in my patrons' section.