Zinnias

 

Frances Gearhart

  1869 - 1958 (biography)

c. 1930  

color linocut 

10 3/4 x 8 5/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

circa 50 

pencil titled, lower left 

 

soft, ivory wove Japanese 

published 

artist 

DRW2066 

SOLD

Zinnas is a beautiful example of Gearhart's painterly approach to inking her blocks. Here she used a linoleum key-block, printed with blue oil-based ink, to create most of the linear elements for this still life and then hand brushed colors on the tone block. As a result of this direct approach, each impression varies in color to some degree. The flower heads vibrate with color as if there we just brought in from her garden.