Japanese style Woodblock Print, 2000, numbered 21/40, titled and signed by the artist in the lower margin

SIZE IN INCHES: approx.17 x 24

COMMENTS: Lake Superior icicles clinging to the cliffs on Grand Island, Michigan.

MARY BRODBECK (B.1958) was born in Hastings, Michigan in 1958. She graduated from Michigan State University with a BFA in Industrial design in 1982, and worked as an Industrial Designer in the West Michigan furniture industry for a dozen years – many of her designs hold US patents – before shifting to image making in the 1990’s. Mary studied Japanese woodblock printmaking in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka on a Japanese government BUNKA-Cho Fellowship in 1998 and obtained her MFA from Western Michigan University in 1999. Her landscape woodblock prints have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the United States; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series, created 2006-2008, is in the permanent collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Fine, no flaws