Tom Killion

Image Size: 12x9 inches

First Printed: 2016

Printing History:  The view from Miller Ave. with Mt. Tamalpais lit by the last rays of a setting sun. Image created for 60th Anniversary of Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Sept. 17-18, 2016. Multiblock reduction-cut with 8 color layers, completed March 2016 in edition of 175 plus 38 artist's proofs, some of which  have a pink-blossomed plum instead of a golden tree in lower right.

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Image Size: 14.5x19 inches

First Printed: 2015

Printing History:  Mullti-block reduction cut with 10 color layers, completed Nov.-Dec. 2015. Edition of 185 plus several proofs. Sold out, out-of-print.

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Image Size: 5x7 inches

First Printed: 2011

Printing History: Three-color block print, key block was recarved from original "High above Pan Toll" (see Mt. Tamalpais page) w/ sky and bay removed, two new blocks added, Spring 2011. Edition of 108. View is from Old Mine Trail, Mt. Tamalpais. 

Out of print - not available

Image Size: 10.5x9 inches

First Printed: 2011

Printing History: Two-color print from "High Above Pan Toll" recarved blocks (see "High above Pan Toll II") with "TK" symbol printed from another block and type over it -- 3 color layers total. Broadside created as keepsake for Killion lecture at William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA), April 2011.

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Image Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches

First Printed: 2010

Printing History:  Three blocks, printed in edition of 108 plus several artist's proofs, Aug. 2010. Out-of-print.  Broadside edition of 125 printed (later) from the same blocks together with Gary Snyder prose (in handset metal type).

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Image Size: 11.5x18 inches

First Printed: 2008

Printing History: Multi-block reduction-cut with ten color layers, printed in edition of 175 plus seven artist's proofs, completed April 2008.

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Image Size: 14x19 inches

First Printed: 2006

Printing History: Edition of 175 plus 13 artist's proofs completed July 2006. Multi-color reduction cut, 18 color layers, blocks destroyed in process.  Original relief edition out-of-print

Printed as an "iris" GICLÉE PRINT in edition of 65. This large format image measures 19.5 x 27 inches.  Out-of-print

Image Size: 14x18.5 inches

First Printed: 2004

Printing History: Edition of 182 completed June 2004. Multi-block reduction print, 15 color layers, blocks destroyed in process. out-of-print. 

Large-Format Giclee editon of 48 plus 10 artist's proofs and  working proofs printed 2007-2008 (matched sets only).

Out of print - not available

Image Size: 14x18.5 inches

First Printed: 2004

Printing History: Edition of 172 plus several artist's proofs completed June 2004. Multi-block reduction print, 13 color layers, blocks destroyed in process.

Large-Format Giclée editon of 48 plus 10 artist's proofs & working proofs printed 2007-2008 (matched sets only).

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Image Size: 13x19 inches

First Printed: 2002

Printing History: Edition of 168 plus 7 artist's proofs printed July 2002. Multi-block reduction cut. Out-of-print.

Also produced as a large-format Iris-type giclée print (19x25 inches) in a limited edition of 55 plus 15 artist's proofs. Out of Print.

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Image Size: 12.5x19 inches

First Printed: 1990

Printing History: State I edition of 130 printed 1990, but numbers 94-129 apparently lost or never printed.

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Image Size: 14x13 inches

First Printed: 1986

Printing History: Multi-block reduction cut print, Killion's first all-wood reduction cut. Edition of 100 plus 1 artist's proof printed 1986, blocks destroyed in process.  Also featured on 2007 Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival 50th Anniversary poster (out of print).

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Image Size: 13x17.5 inches

First Printed: 1988

Printing History: State I -- purple clouds tipping upwards against green sky -- edition of 110 plus 8 artist's proofs printed 1988; State II -- golden clouds on dark blue sky with stars -- edition of 80 plus 11 artist's proofs and 3 working proofs with green clouds, printed c.1995. Reduction cuts on sky; blocks destroyed.

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Image Size: 19x14 inches

First Printed: 1986

Printing History: Multiblock reduction cut print, nominal ed. of 30 plus some artist's proofs printed in 1986 on Masa paper as color proofs for Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival poster image. Only 26 edition prints actually produced. This was one of Killion's largest early multi-block reduction prints. Out-of-print.

NOT AVailable — Out of Print

Image Size: 16.5x12 inches

First Printed: 1985

Printing History: State I -- edition of 100 plus 7 artist's proofs printed 1985 -- some of the higher numbers were destroyed and used for prints actually from State II. The real State I prints have this coloring -- blue sky with yellow sun and leaves.

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Image Size: 6x9 inches

First Printed: 1982

Printing History: First edition of 50, plus 15 artist's proofs printed 1982 (edition prints all donated to Artisans Gallery); Edition II of 30 printed 1991; Edition III of 75 begun September 2002.

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Image Size: 9x12 inches

First Printed: 1981

Printing History: First edition of 80 begun in 1981 (titled "Mt. Tam from Sausalito Heliport"), printed from 3 color blocks (19 artist’s proofs also in ed. I). Ed. II with recarved key block printed in 2001 in ed. of 120 plus 7 artist’s proofs. Blocks cancelled. Out-of-Print.

Image Size: 14x10.5 inches*

First Printed: 1981

Printing History: State I [depicted here] edition of 80 plus 16 artist's proofs -- titled "Rocky Point, Marin Co." -- printed 1981; blocks were then trimmed to smaller size and used to print frontispiece to "Walls" book [see Handprinted Books] and State II edition of 50 plus 24 artist's proofs [some of which were actually intended as book pages, therefore numbered in same sequence, but as book proofs] was pulled from the smaller blocks in 1989; blocks destroyed. Original relief edition out-of-print.

Large-Format Giclée edition of 50, measuring  20x27 inches begun 2006  (out-of-print).

Out of print - not available

Image Size: 9x12 inches

First Printed: 1980

Printing History:  State I -- 2 blocks with hand-inked color block, edition of 50 printed 1980; State II -- 3rd block added, edition of 30 plus 9 artist's proofs c.1986; State III -- nominal edition of 80 but only 1-52 printed c.1989.

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Image Size: 6x8 inches

First Printed: 1979

Printing History: Edition of 50 begun 1979, but only first 25 printed before block ruined and cancelled.

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Image Size: 5x7 inches

First Printed: 1979

Printing History: First edition of 50 plus 12 artist's proofs printed 1979; Edition II, nominally of 40, begun 1989 but only numbers 1-31 printed before block damaged.

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Image Size: 6x9 inches

First Printed: 1978

Printing History: First edition of 30 plus 3 artist's proofs printed 1978-79 -- titles vary; further editions printed 1980s/90s: II=50; III=50 plus 15 artist's proofs.

Temporarily Out of Print

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Image Size: 5x8 inches

First Printed: 1978

Printing History: Edition of 50 begun 1978, plus 6 artist's proofs; Edition II of 50 begun 1980s, pulled through number 35 before block damaged.

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Image Size: 5x7 inches

First Printed: 1975

Printing History: Nominal edition of 50, only 11 numbered pulls printed 1975. Most solid blue, a few handcolored as in this example. Block damaged. Recarved w/ tint blocks added in 2011, see "High Above Pan Toll, II" (above).

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Image Size: inches

First Printed: 1975

Printing History: Carved 1975 for title page of "28 Views of Mt. Tamalpais". No edition prints. Many extra pulls from book edition due to typo. Block destroyed.

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Image Size: 6x12 inches

First Printed: 1975

Printing History: Completed 1975. No numbered edition. Block damaged in book printing.

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Image Size: 6x8 inches

First Printed: 1975

Printing History: Nominal edition of 50 pulled through #35 in 1975. Block ruined.

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Image Size: 6x9 inches

First Printed: 1974

Printing History: Edition of 26 done with '28 Views; in mid-1970s.

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image size: 6.5x10

First Printed: 1974

Printing History: Edition of 13 printed in mid-1970s with '28 Views' book. Block ruined.

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Image Size: 4x6 inches

First Printed: 1974

Printing History: First ed. printed 1974-75, nominally 50, but not finished; used as wedding invitation for friend late 1970s (handprinted); ed. of 25 printed at Univ. of Alabama Library Press on broadside of Maynard Dixon poem "The Light" 1984; block reworked 2002 and ed. II of 50 printed, plus 15 artist's proofs; ed. III (2010) of 50. No longer available.

Out-of-Print
 

Image Size: 3.5x12 inches

First Printed: 1973

Printing History: Nominal edition of 50 pulled through #17 beginning 1973. Block damaged.

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Image Size: 4x9 inches

First Printed: 1972

Printing History: Block carved c.1972, originally titled "Above the Garden of Allah (Ralston White Retreat, Mill Valley)" -- hand-printed from hand-painted waterbase inks on speedball paper in un-numbered series of colored prints c.1972-74. First edition 1-28 of 50 (nominal ed.) printed along with page for "28 Views of Mt. Tamalpais" (1975), plus 4 artist's proofs. Block damaged in storage.

Out of print - not available

Image Size: 4x9 (4x6.5 ed. II) inches

First Printed: 1971

Printing History: Edition of 50 begun early 1970s, printed thru #43 plus 3 a.p.s before block cut down to smaller size for wedding invitation, then used for edition II of 45.

Temporarily Out of Print 

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Image Size: 8x10 inches

First Printed: 1971

Printing History: Edition of 50 plus 8 artist's proofs printed 1971-75, early prints unnumbered. Block ruined.

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