36 Views of Mount Rainier

36 Views of Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier’s iconic image is the very soul of Seattle. Its majesty and scale are beyond Seattle’s impressive man-made structures. The great Japanese woodblock master Hokusai had created “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.” Because of him, I was inspired to learn the wood block technique of print making in order to depict the Rainier landscapes in the same medium. These thirty six views of Mount Rainier have been displayed side by side and now stand as the American bookends to this Asian collection from the 1850s.

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Wood Block Prints, $325 each, image size 12”x10″, paper size 17”x15”, on Somerset Satin White paper
The series is a limited edition of 25, published at Sidereal Press the artist working with printer, Sheila Coppola, created between 2005 and 2010
Kristina Hagman