Bill Ritchie Work in Washington State
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the
Lee Stubbe Collection
(Placeholder - actual image of #63 unavailable)
Little C-Square
Provenance: 1977. Print. Intaglio & woodcut. Black, ochre, blue, orange. Smith & Weber intaglio ink and watercolor on Japanese papers chine colle'd on Van Gelder Zonen. 6 3/4 X 5 in. on 12 X 9 in. Number 63 of an edition of 98. Signed lower right. Other owners include Carl Chew, Gretchen Davidson, Kathy Rabel, Ben Mahmoud, Joan Stuart Ross, Brett and Marivic Weathers and the Ritchie family.
Comment: The C-Squares series used the architect and engineer's instrument, warped, bent and twisted. Nineteen seventy-seven was the year of the Great Wave Square at Seattle's art festival, Bumbershoot, and other works on this theme. Sosaku-hanga is similar to watercolor and I could have a variety of colors in the foreground (bottom) area of the print. No two are alike - yet almost. The bent 'C' form of the C-square is debossed. I used a pierced, cut-out area in the thin copper that I used for the etching and a ribbon of wood veneer printed the ochre.
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