1939 Ford

 

Richard Wagener

  1944 - PRESENT (biography)

2005  

woodengraving 

5 x 3" image 

pencil, lower right 

5 of 10  

dated after signature 

included in Cracked Sidewalks, Richard Wagener, Mixolydian Editions, 2006 

ivory hand made Twin Rocker wove paper 

 

artist 

RW112 

$300.00 

Richard Wagener grew up in southern California, spending time with his grandfather in remote parts of the desert and up in the Sierra mountain range. Early art classes introduced him to Maynard Dixon and Edgar Payne. After-school activities included selling the evening newspapers at the Disney studios, where he met many of the illustrators and animators. Richard has an undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego and a graduate degree from Art Center College of Design, and has been engraving wood for over thirty years. His work is included in a number of fine press editions, most notably with Peter Koch in Berkeley and the Book Club of California, and in 2006 Richard established his own imprint Mixolydian Editions. He currently lives and works in northern California. Of note in regards to his woodengraving technique is his exclusive use of single-line as opposed to multiple-line carving tools, meaning that each line is carved individually.