Cafe

Linda Lee Boyd

Linda Lee Boyd's color woodcut is an observation made in small French cafe. The viewer looks down the center of the tables; two men engaging in a deep discussion, one gestures to make his point.

Beyond them a woman is lost in reading the menu as a waiter stands, poised to take her order while another worker stands behind the bar, also in anticipation. The whole composition is done with a series of short lines, cut to create directions, patterns and texture for the composition. Boyd had to cut the text of menus in the background backward, so they would print in the proper direction to be read.

Linda Lee Boyd was born on 11 November 1949 in Petaluma, California. She received her B.A. degree in religious studies from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.F.A. degree with high distinction in printmaking from the California College of the Arts, Oakland. Boyd also studied printmaking at San Francisco State University with Roy Ragle.

Boyd is a board member of the Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, which produces the annual juried Emeryville Art Exhibition, and was on the board of the California Society of Printmakers for many years. She has taught relief printmaking at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and has her own graphic design business.

Boyd is featured in 'The International Block Print Renaissance Then & Now: Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas, A Centennial Celebration —1922-2022' by Barbara J. Thompson. Her woodcuts are in the collections of the Janet Turner Print Museum, University of California Chico; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; and the Wichita Art Museum, Kansas.