Self-Portrait XLVI (Grey Self Portrait)

 

Roy W. Ragle

  1944 - 2014 (biography)

1979  

woodcut 

32 x 24" image size 

pencil, lower right 

7 of 10  

 

 

very thin antique-white laid 

published 

artist 

RORA110 

$1,000.00 

Roy Ragle had a successful career exhibiting his astonishingly detailed and very large woodcut portraits. His work was often mistakenly labelled as lithographs or etchings in exhibitions because no one believed that his fluid, spidery line work could come from the rigid woodcut form. His mastery of craft was matched by the psychological perception of his subjects, which more often than not included himself, as he described the harrowing affects of Crohn's disease on his physiognomy.