Tom Killion Woodcut Prints - The High Sierra Series

New work is listed on this page as it is completed. All prints are limited editions, signed and numbered.

Key to Abbreviations is at the bottom of this page.

Key to Printing History Terms is at the bottom of this page.

Shell Beach, Tomales Bay

Title: Shell Beach, Tomales Bay
Image Size:12.5x9.25 inches
Printing History: Nine-color multi-block reduction cut printed in edition of 175 plus a few a.p.s, April 2010. (Black Mountain can be seen at the south end of the bay, its top lit by sunset light from behind Inverness Ridge.)
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Davis Lakes & Mt. McGee

Title: Davis Lakes & Mt. McGee
Image Size:11.5x19.5 inches
Printing History: Multi-block reduction-cut, 8 color layers, edition of 170 plus several a.p.s completed March 2010. (Mt. Goddard rises on left side of print, view is west from ridge above Wanda Lake on the JMT.) This is a LARGE print, note dimensions (because of the format of this website, the image looks smaller in relation to others on this page, but it is actually bigger than most of them). Ask for direct purchase discount on this image thru Sept.30.
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Price: $375.00
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The City from Yellow Bluff (Pt. Cavallo)

Title: The City from Yellow Bluff (Pt. Cavallo)
Image Size:14x13 inches
Printing History: Multi-block reduction-cut, 11-color layers, edition of 175 plus several artist proofs, completed Nov. 2009. (View is from cliffs between Sausalito and the Golden Gate.)
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Mt. Tamalpais from Bulkley Ave., Sausalito

Title: Mt. Tamalpais from Bulkley Ave., Sausalito
Image Size:13x14.5 inches
Printing History: Multi-block reduction cut with 13 color-layers, printed Fall 2008 in edition of 165 plus 10 a.p.s and 5 w.p.s. This print was used for the Sausalito Art Festival 2009 poster image. 8 remain for sale.
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Price: $575.00
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Bolinas Ridge Sunset (2009)

Title: Bolinas Ridge Sunset (2009)
Image Size:14x17 inches
Printing History: Multi-block reduction cut with 14 color layers, completed March 2009. Edition of 165 plus 18 a.p.s.
Out of print - not available

West Point, Mt. Tamalpais

Title: West Point, Mt. Tamalpais
Image Size:11.5x18 inches
Printing History: Multi-block reduction-cut with ten color layers, printed in edition of 175 plus several a.p.s, April 2008.
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The City from Grizzly Peak

Title: The City from Grizzly Peak
Image Size:14x17 inches
Printing History: Edition of 175 plus 10 a.p.s completed May 2007. Multi-block reduction cut with 17 color layers.
Available as a matched set with "The Golden Gate from Grizzly Peak" for $1000
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Price: $475 (single)
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Golden Gate (& Mt. Tamalpais) from Grizzly Peak

Title: Golden Gate (& Mt. Tamalpais) from Grizzly Peak
Image Size:14x17 inches
Printing History: Edition of 175 plus 8 a.p.s completed May 2007. Multi-block reduction cut with 14 color layers.
Available as a matched set with "The City from Grizzly Peak" for $1000
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Price: $475 (single)
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Whitney Crest from Kaweah Basin

Title: Whitney Crest from Kaweah Basin
Image Size:9.5x12 inches
Printing History: Edition of 165 plus 1 a.p. completed March 2006. Multi-block reduction with 7 color layers. 5 remain for sale.
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Price: $325.00
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Sawtooth Crest from Chagoopa Creek

Title: Sawtooth Crest from Chagoopa Creek
Image Size:9.5x12 inches
Printing History: Edition of 170 completed March, 2006. Multi-block reduction cut with 6 color layers.

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Price: $285.00
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9-Lakes Basin

Title: 9-Lakes Basin
Image Size:9x7 inches
Printing History: Multi-block reduction cut with 6 color layers, single edition of 150 printed January 2007; 3 original blocks carved 2004 and hand-printed with water-based inks as open studios keepsakes. Blocks destroyed in process.
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Price: $175.00
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Lake Tahoe from Maggies Peaks, Desolation Wilderness

Title: Lake Tahoe from Maggies Peaks, Desolation Wilderness
Image Size:13.5x17 inches
Printing History: Edition of 176 plus 2 w.p.s completed October 2005. Multi-block reduction cut, originally printed in August with 11 color layers, but 2 new layers added from new blocks in October. Blocks destroyed in process.
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Wilder Coast, Santa Cruz

Title: Wilder Coast, Santa Cruz
Image Size:10x13 inches
Printing History: Edition of 165 plus 10 a.p.s completed April 2006. Multi-block reduction cut with 6 color layers.
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Price: $225.00
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Natural Bridge, Santa Cruz

Title: Natural Bridge, Santa Cruz
Image Size:11x18.5 inches
Printing History: Edition of 175 completed September 2004. Multi-block reduction print.
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Hanalei Bay, Kauai (Hawaii)

Title: Hanalei Bay, Kauai (Hawaii)
Image Size:11.5x16.5 inches
Printing History: Edition of 175 completed February 2004. Multi-block reduction print.
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Inverness Ridge Fire, 1995

Title: Inverness Ridge Fire, 1995
Image Size:4x7 inches
Printing History: Three editions of this 3-color print were completed early 2007. First edition (pictured) 55 plus 3 a.p.s is now out-of-print. A numbered broadside edition of 108, "Lifetimes with Fire" (signed by Gary Snyder) is also out of print. State II edition of 40 has lines in clouds removed, it is still available.
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Wild Iris

Title: Wild Iris
Image Size:7x2.5 inches
Printing History: Three edition states with different colorings, including special California Native Plant Soc. (CNPS) edition printed early 2007. First edition (pictured here) 100 plus 15 a.p.s; State II (slightly darker purple) 30 plus 9 a.p.s; CNPS edition titled "Douglas Iris" 40 only, green iris leaves on some II a.p.s.

State II ed. prints (dark purple and dark leaves) available.
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Key to Abbreviations:
All prints are signed and numbered in pencil; dimensions are of the actual image itself, not including signature or paper margins, given in inches, height before width.
a.p. = artist's proofs (where color experiments are made before edition is pulled)
b.p. = book proofs (pages from handprinted books that were never bound in and are now sold separately as signed prints)
o.p. = out-of-print
w.p. = working proofs (have serious flaws or odd color variations)

Key to Printing History Terms:
1. "Multi-block reduction (cut) prints" are limited to one edition as blocks are destroyed in the printing process (see Technique page).
2. Editions: Second editions (II) of other multi-color prints involve recutting of color blocks and consequent variations in the final image. Some of the single color prints have been issued in multiple small editions with touch-up recutting ("cleaning-up") of blocks, but no significant changes in the printed image. With the exception of "Wave", "Seaweed" and "Mt. Tam from Wolfe Grade", no more than 350 prints (total of all editions and a.p.s) have been issued of any print.
3. "Giclées": Killion's digital reproductions are created with new generation "iris print" technology that enables the images to be printed on all-rag watercolor paper. All Killion's "giclée" prints are larger-size than the original woodcuts and have only been created after the woodcut editions have sold out (see information in How to Purchase Prints). All other Killion prints are handprinted by the artist from his original hand cut blocks.

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