Todd Anderson

Reduction woodcut, 20 in. x 15 in. 9 runs and 9 colors

Reduction woodcut, 20 in. x 30 in., 6 runs and 6 colors on Kozo Thick washi.

Reduction woodcut, 20 in. x 15 in., 12 runs and 13 colors on Kozo thick.

20 in. x 30 in. reduction woodcut, eight runs and eight colors.

Created by artists Todd Anderson and Bruce Crownover, and scientist Gary Machlis. Copyright 2022

23 in. x 30 in., reductive woodcut, six colors and six runs. Printed on Kozo Thick Washi paper.

Essay by Gary Machlis. Printed by Todd Anderson

23 in. x 30 in., reductive woodcut, eight colors and six runs. Printed on Kozo Thick Washi paper.

23 in. x 30 in., reductive woodcut, ten runs and nineteen colors. Printed on Kozo Thick Washi paper.

Essay by Gary Machlis. Printed by Todd Anderson

23 in. x 30 in., 8-color reductive woodcut on Washi paper.

23 in. x 30 in., reductive woodcut, eight runs and ten colors. Printed on Kozo Thick Washi paper.

23 in. x 30 in., reductive woodcut, eight colors and eight runs. Printed on Kozo Thick Washi paper.

Essay by Gary Machlis. Printed by Todd Anderson

23 in. x 30 in., seven-color reductive woodcut on Washi paper.

Reductive woodcut. 20 x 30 inches

Reductive woodcut. 18 x 30 inches

Reductive woodcut. 23 x 36 inches

Reductive woodcut. 20 x 30 inches

Reductive woodcut. 19 x 30 inches

Reductive woodcut. 20 x 30 inches

Reductive woodcut. 18 x 30 inches

Reductive woodcut. 18 x 30 inches

Todd Anderson sketching in Glacier National Park under a threatening sky. When circumstances do not allow for travel on the glacier itself I will often hike up a corresponding mountainside to gain elevation and a better view of the particular glacier.

Can be seen in person at the following locations:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Davis Museum, the New York Public Library, US Library of Congress, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Clemson University, Stanford University, Yale University.

This artist’s book was created by Todd Anderson, Bruce Crownover, and Ian van Coller, with literary contribution by Nancy Mahony and binding by Rory Sparks, of Em Space Studio, Portland, Oregon.

Laser and wood engraving on decorative washi. 7.75 in. x 7.5 in.

20 in. x 30 in. when open. Custom clamshell and artist’s book

20 x 30 in. reductive multiple block woodcut. 6 runs and 7 colors.

NSF I-165 Team Leader

Scientist

Scientist

Scientist

Scientist

USAP Deep Field Camp Coordinator

Blue Ice Drill Operator

Chief Blue Ice Drill Operator

20 in. x 30 in. Four block and five color reductive woodcut.

20 in. x 30 in., reductive woodcut with 5 runs and 7 colors.

20 in. x 30 in., multiple block reductive woodcut, 6 runs and 9 colors with watercolor.

Detail shot, 15 in. x 35 in., 10 runs, 18 colors, reductive woodcut with watercolor and pencil.

Ice core scientists and drillers are a rare, tough breed.

Designed and custom made by Chief Blue Ice Drill Operator Tanner Kuhl

Lugging a ~1M year old ice core out of the coring tent. These cores weigh 100 lbs a piece. The team will be drilling down to a depth of ~150m one meter at a time. It is cold, repetitive, and exacting work.

9.5 in. diameter x 1 meter cores. Ablation keeps this area of the world from collecting new snow or ice. Ice at surface level is ~100,000 years old. The team already holds the record for the oldest ice yet found by humans (2.2M-2.7M). The 2019 season was highly successful. The cores pictured above will be analyzed in the summer of 2020.

Reduction woodcut on Kozo Thick washi. 15 in. x 30 in. Eight runs and fifteen colors.

Black Ice

A Tale of Two Valleys

Anchor Point

Drought Index

Volume I of II, Inatglio photopolymer gravure on washi, edition of 10 of which 5 boxed portfolios. 2021

Flip through video of Volume II

“We need to be more than alarmed at the pace of global heating. We need to act individually and collectively.” Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island. Video shot by Todd Anderson during 2019 fieldwork.

The last glaciers of Rocky Mountain National Park, USA

18 x 48 inches wide reductive woodcut

Todd Anderson visits Rowe Glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park.

All the prints in this body of artwork were visited in person by Todd Anderson over the course of two summers.

The magnificent Savoia Peak as seen from Fresh Field Pass.

Savoia Glacier—now all but gone—was still quite massive just ten years ago.

Anderson busy sketching during a recovery day at 14,000 feet.

“My guide Uziah and I after nine days of trekking. Uziah was incredibly fit. Despite training for 12 weeks prior to this trip I barely kept up and lost over 10 pounds. ‘Arduous’ is the best word to describe hiking in the Rwenzori’s.”

Experimentation, printing, and play are underway!

Photopolymer gravure on Washi paper called onto gravures and watercolor on Somerset rag paper. 11 x 30 inches

Photopolymer gravure on Somerset rag paper. 11 x 15 inches

Photopolymer gravure on Washi paper with wax, overlaying watercolor on European rag paper. 32 x 16 inches

Monumentally scaled artist’s book on the last glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Ian van Coller with art contribution by Todd Anderson and science contributions by Carsten Braun.

Hand carved, eight runs and eight color reduction woodcut. 10 in. x 13 in. (H x W), edition of 24. This portrait intends to celebrate and archive Thunberg’s first visit to the U. S. A. (2019) to address to the United Nations in New York City. This print is inspired in part by the work of American photographer Leonard Freed, who among others, creatively documented Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nine-color and nine block woodcut, 7.75 in. x 10 in., edition of 25. Inspired by Villa Lena outside of Pisa, Italy, and the color palettes of Renaissance-era Tuscan painters (most notably J. Pontormo), this print was created as part of Anderson’s Villa Lena Foundation Artist in Residence in the Spring of 2022.

Four-block woodcut, 12 x 9 inches. Originally conceived and executed as a demonstrative print for one of Anderson’s university printmaking classes. “This is the only self-portrait I’ve created since art school in my early 20’s. It is an odd thing, to look at oneself intently. The background is a contrivance—extraction tubes (to remove solvent fumes found in print shops) and a print drying rack can be seen. I am still a student: this is my first attempt at a 16th century Italian chiaroscuro reduction woodcut. In contrast to German woodcuts of this period, the Italians were gestural and, in my estimation, more pictorially daring than their German printmaker counterparts during this age. My goal for this print was to be loose and free with my marks.”

A five run and six color reduction woodcut, 6 in. x 7.5 in. (H x W), edition of 30. Co-published by the Villa Lena Foundation and Il Bisonte print studio in Firenze, Italia. Available through the Villa Lena Foundation. “In the Spring of 2022, I spent a month at Villa Lena. Most days of the week I commuted from the city of Pontedera to Firenze, where I would spend the day studying art in museums, chapels, and monasteries. This print was inspired by the transition from rural Tuscany to urban Firenze as seen through train windows.”

As a young artist, I was deeply influenced by Goya; I wrote extensively on Goya for my graduate thesis. Years later, I was fortunate and humbled to have my artworks on display in the same room as Goya (a print from Los Caprichos, in the Met).

Laser and hand cut woodcut with mica dusting, 6.5 x 4 inches.

Photopolymer gravure on Washi colléd onto pigment print. 30 in. x 32 in.

Photopolymer gravure on Washi paper colléd onto pigment print on Hanahmule paper. 30 x 32 inches

Photopolymer gravure on Washi paper colléd onto Somerset rag paper. 8 x 15 inches.

Reductive woodcut on Washi paper colléd onto Rives BFK rag paper, 20 x 15 inches. This print was part of an invitational print exchange.

Resingrave engraving, 1.5 x 3 inches. This engraving was inspired by art and cultural critic Dave Hickey’s essay “Pirates and Farmers”.

Laser and hand cut woodcut with mica dusting on washi colléd onto buff colored Somerset rag, 5 x 4 inches. This print was inspired by a visit to Robin Island, South Africa, and the passing of Nelson Mandela.

Laser cut relief print on washi colléd onto gray Somerset rag. 6.5 x 8 inches

Photopolymer gravure on washi colléd onto gray colored Somerset rag, 8 x 5 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 26 x 38 inches.

The prints in this body of work were drawn with a needle aided by a good pair of magnifying glasses.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 17 x 20 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 27 x 17 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 18 x 36 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 23 x 17 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 17 x 19 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 17 x 30 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 20 x 17 inches.

Intaglio on Washi overlaying watercolor on rag paper, a la poupée. 23 x 17 inches.