Bill Ritchie' art in Washington State
  
in the Western Washington University's

Western Gallery Collection, WWU

 
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Provenance: 1968. Print. Lithograph. Black lithograph ink printed from stone on Arches Cover and Rives BFK rag paper. Image area is 20-inches wide, 13-inches high. Edition of 5 plus variable impressions, artist proofs, trial proofs and experimental impressions. Signed lower right. Similar impressions in collections of Fred Dunagan (location unknown); Francis McCray Gallery, Silver City, NM; this impression was formerly part of Safeco Corporation collection. Shown at the Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR in 1971. Special mention given at the 8th Annual Mercyhurst College National Exhbition of Graphics, Eerie, PA.

Comment: In 1968 I made this print as part of my targets, trees, bushes and reflections series. Two versions resulted, one with a greenish tinted black and some double-printed. One has the top masked out, which resulted in a narrower composition. Those targets, trees, bushes and mirrors, my car's front hood all polished, were the silent sentinels those days. I drew this was with the slow, meditative process on lithograph stone.

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Target and Ford IV

Provenance: 1968. Print. Lithograph drawn in the crayon manner on stone. Sheet size 18 ¼ x 19 ¼”. 2010 Gift of Safeco Insurance to the Washington Art Consortium to WWU #2010.008.143. Also in the collection of Anne Hagler.

Comment: My obsession with the targets during this period came out in many ways. Sometimes I drew the targets in archery fields with trees. Other times I drew it as if half-submerged in water. This time I drew it reflected on a shiny surface, at times using the hood of our 1960 baby blue Ford, for example.

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Lunar Concerns

Provenance: 1988. Screenprint, Ed. 48/60. 17 x 24 ¾” image; 22 x 29 ¾ sheet. From the four-print CD/I Project portfolio by C.T. Chew and Bill Ritchie. 2010 Gift of Safeco Insurance to the Washington Art Consortium, WWU #2010.008.141. Collections of fifty members of the CD/I Publisher's Club including Ray Freeman III and the Artist's family & Fine Print Studios.

Comment: "C. T. Chew conceived a plan to finance our joint venture into CD-based publishing. Art Student was our vision, a disk to contain 'everything an art student needs'. We contacted our patrons, friends and corporations. We raised the money we needed to buy equipment and research materials, tuition and some living expenses. Lunar Concerns started out as an Apple II dot-matrix print, and went through several metamorphoses. I have shown these prints numerous times and they have given me many rewarding experiences and developed relationships nationally."

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