2010 Arts and Crafts Block Prints Wall Calendar

While reaching art in northern California, woodblock printer William Seltzer Rice (1873-1963) was thunderstruck by the Japanese woodblock prints he saw at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. Incorportating elements of this genre with the Arts and Crafts aesthetic, he adopted a new style that blended strong outlines and clean compositions with gently modulated colors. The twelve images in this calendar, among them Sierra Winter, Single Camellias, Windblown Cypress, Grosbeaks, and Sunset Glow-My Shasta, are from the book William S. Rice: California Block Prints, by Roberta Rice Treseder (Pomegranate, 2009)