The following 52 solar etched prints, of Montezuma Bald Cypress trees found at Fairmount Park in Riverside CA, were shown in the “52” exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum from October 3 2013 to January 5 2014. They are editions of 25 except for Tree 52 which is an edition of 52.
Solar etching is a method of printmaking using a steel plate with a light-sensitive polymer coating. This non-toxic process, developed by Dan Weldon in the early 70’s gives you a copper etched looking image with out the use of chemicals. You start with an image …transfer it to a transparent film…this film is then placed on the solar plate and put in a light box for a couple of minutes. The polymer will harden any place that UV light touches the plate, while unexposed areas remain soft and water soluble. After the plate is exposed, the image is developed by rinsing the plate with water. The final step in preparing the plate for printing is to re-harden it in the sun for about 10 minutes.(information from Dan Weldon and McClain’s sites)
16 x 20 maple framing…floated Arches paper… museum glass. $600 per print plus tax and delivery. This gallery is the “52” exhibition that showed at the Riverside Art Museum Oct 3 2013 to Jan 4, 2014
1/25…. TREE 1 ~ in the Jennifer Katz collection
1/25… TREE 2 ~ in the Opotowsky collection
1/25… TREE 3 ~ in the Maloney collection
1/25… TREE 4 ~ in the Marion Mitchell Wilson collection
1/25…. TREE 5 ~ in the Jones collection
1/25… TREE 6
1/25… TREE 7 ~ in the Maloney Collection
1/25… TREE 8 ~ in the Security Bank of CA collection
1/25… TREE 9 ~ in the David Mitchell collection
1/25…. TREE 10
1/25… TREE 11
1/25… TREE 12
1/25… TREE 13 ~ in the Sarah Mundy collection
1/25… TREE 14
1/25… TREE 15 ~ in the Mundy collection
1/25… TREE 16 ~ in the Sheryl Grise Larsen collection
1/25… TREE 17 ~ in the Bridges collection
1/25… TREE 18
1/25… TREE 19 ~ MacNaughton collection 2/25 Earleen Thomas collection
1/25… TREE 20 ~ in the Brent and Ana Lee collection
1/25 …TREE 21 ~ in the Fran Beadles collection
1/25… TREE 22 ~ in the Community Foundation collection
1/25… TREE 23 ~ in the Paul and Chris Berlacher collection
1/25… TREE 24
1/25… TREE 25 ~ in the MacNaughton collection
1/25… TREE 26
1/25… TREE 27
1/25….TREE 28….in the Guthrie Collection
1/25… TREE 29 ~ in the Guthrie collection
1/25… TREE 30 ~ in the Guthrie collection
1/25… TREE 31~ in the Guthrie collection
1/25… TREE 32 ~ in the Carrie Wachendorf collection
1/25… TREE 33 ~ in the Katie Berlacher collection
1/25… TREE 34
1/25… TREE 35
1/25… TREE 36
1/25… TREE 37 ~ in the Shackelton collection
1/25… TREE 38 ~ in the Security Bank of CA collection
1/25… TREE 39 ~ in the Berlacher/ Ferguson collection
1/25… TREE 40
1/25… TREE 41 ~ in the Security Bank of CA
1/25 …TREE 42
1/25… TREE 43 ~ in the MacNaughton collection
1/25… TREE 44 ~ in the Briggs/ McDonald collection
1/25… TREE 45 ` in the Mundy collection
1/25… TREE 46 ~ in the Douglas McCulloh collection
1/25… TREE 47 ~ in the Simonsen/ Kelley collection
1/25… TREE 48
1/25… TREE 49 ~ in the Cason/Wingate collection
1/25… TREE 50 ~ in the Bong collection
1/25…TREE 51 ~ in the Greenberg collection
1/52… TREE 52 ~ in the Riverside Art Museum permanent collection
MASTHEAD PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Rock/ Zelma Beard… Face and Tree/ Doug McCulloh