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Moku Hanga: Annie Bissett

Vast Unpeopled Lands.

Vast Unpeopled Lands.

by Annie Bissett (b. 1955)
Self-carved and self-printed moku hanga (Japanese woodblock print)
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil
Date: 2009
Edition: 9
Printed with 5 carved blocks and 29 hand-rubbed color layers
Image size: 21 x 29 inches (53.3 x 73.7 cm)
X101215
$600.

"In this invented landscape I've imagined autumn 1620 in the Connecticut River valley, just a few months before the arrival of the Mayflower some 135 miles away. In 1620 both the people and the town in this area were called Norwottuck, which means 'in the midst of the river.'" Annie Bissett

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