This week we bring you more linocut renderings by Spokane, Washington printer and printmaker W. Gale Mueller (1927-2018) from his Forty Years of Birds ‘n Blocks, printed from the original blocks at his Millstone Press in 2009 in an edition of 53 copies. From 1969 to 2009, Mueller and his wife Bonnie sent holiday cards with Gale’s original bird prints using several relief print processes. Today we show a handful of linocut prints from 1975-1990. For those who want to know more about these birds, here you go:
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Our copy of this book is a gift from our friend Tony Drehfal.
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