This is a rare original signed and numbered limited edition color woodcut printed on silk mounted on rag paper by internationally acclaimed artist JANIS PROVISOR (American, b. 1946 - ), dated 1989.

Janis Provisor was born in 1946 in Brooklyn. She grew up going to museums with her mother and excelling in art classes. To please her father, who was a lawyer, she enrolled in pre-law at the University of Michigan, but at the moment of committing to the program broke out in hives. She took this as a sign that she should study art instead, and went into the School of Architecture and Design at U. Michigan. After further study in art at the College of Art, University of Cincinnati, she went to the San Francisco Art Institute where she gained both a B.F.A. and (in 1971) an M.F.A. In 1978 she was included in a show of six artists at the New Museum called "Outside New York."  This led to an invitation to join New York's prestigious Holly Solomon Gallery. In 1989 Provisor made her first trip to China, traveling to Hangzhou and Shanghai with her husband, Brad Davis, to participate in the Crown Point Press woodcut program there. She and Davis have in common a love of Chinese painting and Chinese culture, and in 1993 they made the big decision to move to China with their (then) six-year-old son. They went back to Hangzhou and eventually they moved to Hong Kong. Their life in China stretched to nine years before they returned to New York in 2002. 

This superb color woodcut is entitled "Long Fall" and is signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right "Janis Provisor". It is also titled in the center and numbered on the lower left "9/70", from the total limited edition of only 70 impressions. In Long Fall, described by the artist as both a landscape and a still-life, two flower-like forms rise out of bubbling water, vertical red strokes emphasizing the upward as well as downward motion in the print. The water consists of black bubbles and quick swirling strokes of bright blue, and the silk shimmers beneath the ink. It was published by Crown Point Press and bears their original embossed blindstamp on the front lower right. Printed by Ji Qiz Heng, woodblocks carved by Jian Ming, and transformed by Liu Wei Fan at the Duo Yun Xuan Studio, Shanghi. It is in good condition aside from some areas where the silk is separated from the backing sheet, measures 32 ½" x 22" (sheet), 19 ½" x 14" (image) and is matted and framed for a total size of 28" x 35 ½". CATALOGUE REFERENCE: Ink, Paper, Metal Wood, Kathan Brown, page 219, full page color illustration. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Although this particular woodcut edition is sold out, similar prints by Provisior sell at Crown Point Press for $2,800. Winning bidder add $75.00 packing & shipping within the US. Please view my other auctions and eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles, including other limited edition prints from Crown Point Press.

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