Edition Documentation
Print Edition Record Number 36 / Art Inventory Number SG-60
Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: Hatcher Pass - Wet Gulch
Date: 1980
Medium: Offset Lithograph (original lithograph, drawn directly on aluminum plate, printed on offset litho press)
Paper: Arches Cover White 14 x 17 inches (35.56 x 43.18 cm)
Image: 3.25 x 4" (8.255 x 10.16 cm)
Ink: Sinclair & Valentine Instaset Process Black Lithograph Ink
ABOUT THIS PRINT
Springtime in the Talkeetna Mountains near Hatcher Pass, not far from Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska. Winter is behind us and the snow is melting. Willow Creek meanders in the valley below. There are beaver ponds. Across the valley Wet Gulch is feeding snowmelt water into the creek. Spruce and birch are in the lower elevations. Among the patches of snow on the slope in front of us are willow, soon to bud.
Image source was a photograph made by the artist on Willow Creek-Hatcher Pass road north of Wasilla, Alaska. The drawing work was accomplished at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska in Anchorage.
PROCESS DESCRIPTION
The image was drawn with Korn's #5 litho crayon pencil directly on ball-grained aluminum plate cut to fit a Heidelberg commercial offset printing press at Van Cleve Printing, Anchorage. Upon completion of the crayon drawing, the artist processed the plate with liquid asphaltum, and transferred the image into lacquer image base. Before printing, the artist calendared the Arches Cover paper on a hand lithography press at the Visual Arts Center, with two passes through the press, in order to flatten and smooth the paper surface, to enhance its printability on an offset litho press.
EDITION RECORD
80 edition impressions numbered 1/80 through 80/80.
5-8 artist's proofs (conflicting records)
2 printer's proofs.
10 presentation proofs.
Some edition prints hand colored in various ways and paper size altered.
Printed Tim Caudill, Van Cleve Printing, Anchorage, Alaska.
EXHIBITIONS
Annual International Competition, Philadelphia Print Club
National Printmaking Invitational, Florida State University
National Printmaking Invitational, University of Florida
Solo Exhibit at the Anchorage Museum, October 1989
