Bill Ritchie's art in Washington State
in the
Marnie Briggs Collection
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"Locus and the Sea
Squares"
Provenance: 1982. Cyanotype, intaglio, and relief
print. Blue, gray, red-orange, violet and black on 21 1/2 X 15
on 29 X 20 1/2 in. Japanese
paper. No. ___, from variable edition of 141 prints. Signed lower
right.
Comment: "This print is from a series of 141 trial proofs and artist's proofs in "cycles" of approximately 15 each, of different color series. They are proofs that I made using the processes of cyanotype, woodcut, and intaglio printing. The result is a series of monotypes. I derived the images from three sources: The map is based on the Colorado River, a place known as the Crossing of
the Fathers; the leaf shape I call locus--the
path of a moving point (drawn to establish data in a
computer program). The Great Wave was drawn from
the famous print by Hokusai."
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