Anne K Foote's Mendocino Serigraphs
Giclee Copies Now Available
The Artist
Biography
I remember the day we put two colors on top of each other, and came up with a third- so exciting!
Anne Foote got her start in serigraphy as the gallery workshop director at the Student Union at University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Rockefeller Foundation provided a grant for her and a companion to travel around Wisconsin to record the designs painted on antique furniture and household objects that were collected in various museums. She collaborated with Elaine Smedal to produce a book about Norwegian design in Wisconsin, illustrated with a series of serigraphs (or silk-screen prints). The serigraphs were made by pulling paint through stencil cutouts glued to pieces of silk, with several pulls of different-colored paints through different stencils onto the same piece of paper to produce the final print.
My students have taught me such an incredible amount...at the end of every time I've taught I lay the things out the things out
on the table and look at them, and it amazing what a teacher can learn.
The Mendocino Serigraphs
We walked around town and looked at spots where (this was) taken. Gallery Fair is across the street and the tower that I had that was blown down was over here; my first experience, looking at things and doing the sketch and then two weeks later finding, this tower blew down. It didn't have any water in it; it had been rebuilt for "The Russians Are Coming" and was solid as could be but with no water the wind just took it down one day. And it's very upsetting, because I think it was the tallest and the prettiest one in town. It had two tanks, and we had a nice fence, which is almost gone now, and a wooden walk which is now gone. And this little windmill, which is quite attractive, and I thought, "hmmm!". In the meantime, after this was done they built a great big water tank right in here, so you can't see this or a good deal of it anymore- everything is changing.
I began to feel that maybe what I was looking at... I was beginning to be a historical recorder...
click here for a gallery of some of Anne K. Foote's Mendocino serigraphs
Giclee Copies of Anne K Foote's Mendocino Serigraphs
Currently available Giclee copies of the serigraphs are:
- Mendocino Water Tower
- No Rollerskating in Mendocino
- View to Chapman Point
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About the Giclee Copies
The basic steps in the giclee process are:
- Make a digital reproduction of the original serigraph
- Utilize the digital reproduction and sophisticated, computer-controlled printing equipment to create a copy of the original
- Proof to be sure the copy is faithful to the original
To order a giclee copy of an Anne K. Foote serigraph, click here
