Winter Trees by Susan Hunt-Wulkowicz
This is a lithograph by Wisconsin artist Susan Hunt Wulkowicz. It is titled Winter Trees. It's a very interesting landscape composition in that the bare trees are presented as a grove, but placed in a negative space created by the paper. There is no horizon or detail in the forest floor. This creates ambiguity. Are the trees in snow-covered ground with a hazy sky eliminating boundaries between land and sky? The trees fade from sharp to indistinct emphasizing the diffuse atmosphere. There is one clue that there is snow on the ground. In the left of the image is a small line of tracks disappearing into the woods. We Midwesterners are certainly familiar with these types of scenes in the winter. It's left for the viewer to provide the interpretation. But the artist's composition takes a traditional landscape and gives it a modern somewhat minimalist feel. It's a fine piece. It is titled in pencil lower center and signed Hunt Wulkowicz lower right. The edition 12/100 is in pencil lower left. The work is framed with the frame size 34.25 x 16.5 inches. The mats and backing are not archival. There is a label on the back from Gallery 3619 giving the title Winter Trees and the artist's last name, Wulkowicz. It is described as an etching, and while it does resemble an etching, the absence of a plate mark and the appearance of the ink under magnification is more consistent with a lithograph. The work appears to be in excellent condition, but it has not been examined outside the frame.
The artist, Susan Hunt-Wulkowicz is still active and lives in Janesville, Wisconsin. These biographical excerpts are taken from her website. She was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, the daughter of two artists, William Hunt and Juanita Crunk. She spent most of her childhood in Chicago and like her parents studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1980, she co-founded the Chicago Center for the print with Dennis McWilliams, a master printer and educator from Wisconsin. They married, sold the print center and moved to rural Wisconsin where she has resided since 1989. Her work is well known and she has many exhibitions, some of the most notable include the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the National Academy of Design, New York City, the 57th Society of American Graphic Artists Exhibition, New York, the Pratt Graphics International Miniature Print Competition Biennial, the Philadelphia Print Club International Print Biennial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Her works are held in many collections, notably the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the University of Illinois. She is also widely collected in Japan the result of her representing the State of Wisconsin in a cultural exchange with Wisconsin's "Sister-State," the Prefecture of Chiba, Japan. She has returned many times and has had exhibitions of her work in Japan. In her artist statement she says, "My artwork has always been imaginary, as I escaped the city by creating the places I'd rather be. These works became increasingly detailed to bring the fantasy closer to reality."
Price: $165
Framed Size: 34.25 x 16.5 inches
Plate Size: 24.25 x 4.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Medium: Lithograph
Subject: Landscape
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