Donner Peak Tree #2

 

Richard Wagener

  1944 - PRESENT (biography)

2014  

woodengraving 

3 15/16 x 5 15/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

14 of 16  

dated lower right; pencil titled verso 

 

antique-white wove Twinrocker 

published 

artist 

RW155 

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A shrubby, high-altitude pine grows on the edge of a peak in the Sierra Mountain range near the Donner Pass. Wagener's use of negative space in the background indicates clouds or mountain range, depending on the time of year. Of note in regards to Wagener's woodengraving technique is his exclusive use of single-line as opposed to multiple-line carving tools, meaning that each line, in its delicate uniformity, is carved individually.