(*NEW ARRIVAL*) Patricia Curtan. Artichoke

Original linocut image from the series Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters. 13.25x10", printed from 3 linoleum blocks on a sheet of Arches Heavyweight paper. No. 6 of 25 copies, with separate limitation sheet. Berkeley: Patricia Curtan, 1996.

A scarce print from a run of just 25, now sold out from Curtan's own store. The process of making the prints is three part: drawing, carving and printing. It begins with a pencil drawing, which is transferred to linoleum blocks—a smooth layer of linoleum mounted on wood. The linoleum is carved with a knife and gouges to remove the negative space of the image and leave a raised relief surface. A separate block is cut for each color in the image. The blocks are then printed, one color at a time, on a one-hundred-year old 10 x 15 Chandler & Price letterpress. In some images, some of the blocks are printed multiple times to make layers of color. Some images have as many as twelve blocks and may pass through the press twenty times.

(Bottom drawer of map case)