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What A Relief! Variations On Printmaking, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
What A Relief! Variations On Printmaking, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
2015-2016
What (is) a Relief?
Relief printmaking was the first printmaking process invented, and has its origins in seals in China around 255 BCE. At its most basic, one can think of a stamp as a relief print. The artist uses tools to cut away portions of the matrix (a wood block, linoleum sheet, Styrofoam, etc.), leaving behind a raised image area, which is then printed on a substrate (paper, fabric, etc.). To this day, relief printmaking is still the most accessible form of printmaking because a press is not required to make a print – just the matrix, ink, pressure …
A Place Called Home: Frank Lundahl And The Quad Cities, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
A Place Called Home: Frank Lundahl And The Quad Cities, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
2015-2016
Frank Lundahl (1858-1932) was a Swedish-American artist born in Rock Island. A painter of interior murals by trade, his works in Augustana’s collections focus on the world around him, calling our attention to the everyday beauty of our region, this place we call home.