Category Archives: woodcuts

UCOL Summer School 2011

UCOL Summer School 2011 — 17 January – 21 January 2011 The UCOL Summer school will be held the week after our CPCANZ summer school. The UCOL menu and enrolment package is available online. The printmaking offerings are Graham Hall … Continue reading

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Utagawa – Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900

From the Brooklyn Museum web site: Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900 presents more than seventy prints from the renowned Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison and approximately twenty … Continue reading

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Wood-Block Printing

Wood-Block Printing, by F. Morley Fletcher, Illustrated by A. W. Seaby A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice A free e-book, available for download from Project Gutenberg. Traditional Japanese woodblock prints were … Continue reading

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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528): prints

A supremely gifted and versatile German artist of the Renaissance period, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was born in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, one of the strongest artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was … Continue reading

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