Just picked these two pieces up.The yellow & black abstract is a torn paper collage with what looks like handmade papers-no signature. The second B&W piece was done by Paul James Gunn, an Oregon artist.Really like that this piece was framed w/ TruGuard UV Glass-like to find a fresh pile of that ! Here's a bit about him- http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=9322;type=701
The Portland Museum actually has a copy of that work. 'Untitled.' ca. 1955. Linotype. http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=14443;type=101 Fun find. Debora
The collage looks like it might be inspired by the work of the Japanese American Paul Horiuchi - particularly if you found it in the NW (I forget where you are, bosko).
2many-We're near Portland,OR. Thanks for the tip on Horiuchi- a very definite possibility. Deb- He became chairman of the art department at OSU in 1964.'Linotype'- I was wondering what it was-thanks.
In this context, I still am! I know what Linotype is...but am missing, somehow, its connection to the Gunn art.
The description of Gunn's work was as a "linocut" (a print block cut on linoleum) rather than linotype. A linotype is an industrial type-setting machine.
Sorry about that,the link below is a linotype ! Mark Twain was deeply interested in printing technology & invested heavily in the less reliable Paige Compositor,sadly not the Linotype machine.This misjudgement led to his bankruptcy. PS-Most of us played w/ linocut prints in school, sometimes using a potato ! https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandh...the-machine-that-revolutionized-movable-type/
It was 1968 and I carved the Zig Zag as my print block. The Crafts class teacher said-'Why do you keep printing that pirate with a cigarette surrounded by jagged leaves over an over again ?'
I think around that time a lot of my elders (30's-40's !) thought that 'Laugh-In' was pretty avant garde-cutting edge.
My high school science teacher with the crewcut and bolo tie used to walk like Groucho and say -'Here come the judge !'
