Color woodcut on Japan paper, 1940. 242x329 mm; 9½x13 inches, wide margins. Edition of approximately 100. Signed in ink, lower right. Titled in pencil, lower left.
Luigi Rist was born in Newark, New Jersey. He attended the Grand Central School of Art in New York, where he made his first block print. However, it wasn't until later in life when his mentor, Morris Blackburn, introduced him to Japanese woodcuts, that he began to find his voice as a printmaker. Through trial and error he taught himself the Ukiyo-etechnique and eventually won first prize at the American Color Print Society's second annual exhibition in 1941, for his print Sunflowers.
