Tom Killion Woodcut Prints - The High Sierra Series



San Francisco Bay from Grizzly Peak (diptych, 2007)

Key to Abbreviations is at the bottom of this page.

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

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. Original woodcut is Out-of-print.

Large-format (22x25 image size on larger paper) giclee print, edition of 75 available.
Available as a Giclee Print Only
Price: $485.00
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USF from Twin Peaks

Title: USF from Twin Peaks
Image Size:8x10 inches
Printing History: Edition of 100 with several a.p.s printed 2012 for University of San Francisco. Block and complete edition owned by U.S.F.
Out of print - not available

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 20 artist's proofs and 5 w.p.s (with odd colors and missing layers), completed Nov. 2009. (View is from cliffs between Sausalito and the Golden Gate.) Out of Print.
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. 15 remain.
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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 17 a.p.s and 3 w.p.s completed May 2007. Multi-block reduction cut with 17 color layers. Out of Print.
Out of print - not available

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 17 a.p.s and 3 w.p.s completed May 2007. Multi-block reduction cut with 14 color layers. Out-of-print.
Out of print - not available

Golden Gate

Title: Golden Gate
Image Size:8x10 inches
Printing History: First edition of 85 plus 5 a.p.s printed 1984-95; Edition II of 50 printed mid-1990s; Edition III of 65 plus a.p.s printed 1999-2003; Edition IV of 25 printed 2004; Edition V of 75 plus 7 a.p.s printed 2006; Edition VI of 45 plus 5 a.p.s, 2007; ed. VII of 75 begun 2010.
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The City from Sausalito

Title: The City from Sausalito
Image Size:8x10 inches
Printing History: First edition of 100 plus 8 a.p.s printed 1985; Edition II of 75 printed 1999; Edition III of 75 begun 2005 (plus ed. III a.p.s 1-10).
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Angel Island from Sausalito

Title: Angel Island from Sausalito
Image Size:8x10 inches
Printing History: Low Tide on the Sausalito waterfront c.1976, view of Angel Island from near Schoonmaker Pt. Edition of 50 plus 5 a.p.s. Numbers 1-39 printed 1978-1990, block lost and damaged, rediscovered and repaired 2012, #s40-50 plus 5 a.p.s printed.
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Kirby Cove

Title: Kirby Cove
Image Size:12x9 inches
Printing History: First 3 editions printed from 1978 in these numbers: I=50 plus 21 a.p.s; II=50; III=20; State IV block recut, edition of 75 [1 misnumbered as edition of 60] begun 1999.
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Golden Gate Sunset

Title: Golden Gate Sunset
Image Size:18.5x13 inches
Printing History: Edition of 115 plus 23 a.p.s and 1 w.p. printed 1997; 13 color, 2 key-block reduction print; blocks destroyed. o.p.

First gíclee print edition of 98, plus several a.p.s: image size 28x19.5. Sold through Gump's; out-of-print.
Out of print - not available

Golden Gate Sunset II

Title: Golden Gate Sunset II
Image Size:28x19.5 inches
Printing History: Giclee Edition of 75 with altered sky and flower colors and other changes, printed in 2012 for Gump's.
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Golden Gate Bridge

Title: Golden Gate Bridge
Image Size:5x7 inches
Printing History: Edition of 30 begun 1979, but only 15 printed before block damaged. o.p.
Out of print - not available

San Francisco from the Presidio

Title: San Francisco from the Presidio
Image Size:12.5x17.5 inches
Printing History: First edition included 2 different colorings with several different blocks: #1-27 have very red tint under leaves/on buildings and water printed 1984, but only #s 1-11 plus 1 a.p. saved of this coloring. Others destroyed and replaced by numbers from second coloring [depicted here] with new water and shadow blocks added = #s 12-67 printed c.1986. Edition never completed. Multi-block reduction cut.
Out of print - not available

The City from Angel Island

Title: The City from Angel Island
Image Size:17x13 inches
Printing History: Edition of 100 plus 11 a.p.s printed 1986. op.
Out of print - not available

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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