Nancy Vogel Collection

Specifications: 1978. Print. Relief, graphite rubbing on woodcut on lightweight Asian paper. Monocolor, black, gray on white. 15 X 7 3/4 inches. Variable edition of approximately 75 impressons in seven groups. Printed by the artist between November, 1977 and January, 1978 at Triangle Studios, Seattle. Signed lower right. Similar prints in the collections of artist's family, Lynda Ritchie, Billie Jane Bryan, and Nellie Sunderland. Also Lenora Alexander, Karl Beckley, Peggy Heaverlo, Gregory Kaveny Estate, Pamela ____, and the Margit Szucs Estate.

Artist's comment: Wavy squares are like T-Squares that engineers used except rubbery and floppy. Imagine a giant wavy square all twisted and partly buried amid six-man sized stones. As a boy, I recall building bridges and dams across creeks, finding the biggest stones I could and throw them into the stream. In this print I remembered those stepping-stone bridges and thought how a great wavy square would look if a giant threw huge boulders on it, partially burying it. The sands of time would cover all but the tops of the wavy square and boulders. Nancy reported words on the back: "Art auction number 192. Heritage Galleries, 504 S 1st St., Mt Vernon - which might have been where it was framed." She does not recall where or when she purchased the print, but my guess it was sold at the 1979 "Art Action" (not auction) by Carl Chew at the Kent Lovelace Gallery in Belltown, Washington, a fundraiser described in my autobiography, Volume 4, "Target Hearts: Notes from the Ivory Tower," on amazon. A section may be read as a PDF file here.