Jean Gumpper
About the Artist
Artist Statement
In my work as an artist and printmaker, I respond to landscape as a metaphor for emotions and experiences. Being alone in nature helps me to listen to my intuition and to have the patience necessary to really see. I seek to integrate the memories, sounds and feelings of being in the landscape into the making of the print. The carving of the woodblock and the layering of the ink, for me, echo natural processes such as the layering of leaves, water, trees and light. Each color is mixed carefully and applied in a series of transparent and opaque overlapping layers through a reduction woodcut process and gradually, the layers build up into a completed image. Making the print is a way to relive an experience and to share it with others.
Biography
Jean Gumpper was born in Hawaii, grew up in Michigan and now lives in Chipita Park, Colorado, with her husband, Stephen Flynn and their son, Andrew. Jean is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at the Colorado College. Her prints are in the collections of Colorado College, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Cranbrook Institute of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Rocky Mountain National Park; Springfield Art Museum, MO; University of Pittsburgh, PA: University of Wisconsin, Madison; as well as private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada, Japan, Nepal and Sweden. In 2008, she has had solo exhibitions in Seattle and Denver and a two-person exhibition at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jean received a Visual Artist Fellowship award from the Colorado Council on the Arts in 2000 and she participated as an artist in residence at the Ucross Foundation in 2001 and at Rocky Mountain National Park in 1998.
Landscape Prints
Jean Gumpper
“Silhouette”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2018
Size: 14 x 20 in.
Edition: 3 of 15
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $750
Jean Gumpper
“Swirling Currents”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Date: 2017
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 20
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Calligraphic Grass”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2016
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 15
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $900*
Jean Gumpper
“Crystal Pool”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2016
Size: 13.5 x 10.5 in.
Edition: 28
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $500
Jean Gumpper
“Marsh Grass”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2016
Size: 15 x 19 in.
Edition: 19
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $750
Jean Gumpper
“Passage”
Medium: Woodcut on Japanese paper
Year: 2015
8 panels at 38 x 13 inches each
Edition: 11
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $7,000
Jean Gumpper
“Swedish Grass”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2015
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 19
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Thunder River”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2015
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 20
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Description: Thunder River is near the bottom of the Grand Canyon on the North Rim.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Thunder Spring”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2015
Size: 30 x 20 in.
Edition: 20
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Rose Hips”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2014
Size: Six panels at 38 x 15 inches each
Edition: 10
Description: inspired by a walk near home when the sun came out after it snowed. I wanted to make an image expanding across multiple panels like the Japanese screens I love to visit at the Met.
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $5,250
Jean Gumpper
“Bittersweet”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2013
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 19
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Late Fall II”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2013
Size: 11 x 15 in.
Edition: 26
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $350
Jean Gumpper
“Solace”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2012
Size: 20 x 42 in.
Edition: 17
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $1,500
Jean Gumpper
“Sunrise”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2012
Size: 4 print suite, each print is 38 x 15 in.
Edition: 12
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $3,500
Jean Gumpper
“Tracery”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2012
Size: 15 x 11 in.
Edition: 13
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $600
Jean Gumpper
“Allure”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2011
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 17
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Descant”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2010
Size: 20 x 30 in.
Edition: 7
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $900
Jean Gumpper
“Spring View”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2010
Size: 11 x 15 in.
Description: A view from Ms. Gumpper’s studio of Pikes Peak through crabapple blossoms inspired by Hiroshige.
Edition: 28
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $600
Jean Gumpper
“Birchbark”
Medium: Woodcut
Year: 2010
Size: 15 x 11 in.
Edition: 15
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $600
Description: One of four prints of the forest floor in winter. These are part of project in collaboration with Sandy and Lauren Kinnee about an artesian well in Michigan.
Jean Gumpper
“Swirling Bark”
Medium: Woodcut and pochoir
Year: 2010
Sized: 15 x 11 in.
Edition: 12
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
Condition: Mint
Price: $600
Description: One of four prints of the forest floor in winter. These are part of project in collaboration with Sandy and Lauren Kinnee about an artesian well in Michigan.
Reduction Woodcut and Pochoir
In the reduction woodcut process, the image is printed from a flat surface of birch plywood that has been rolled up in ink. The areas meant to be un-inked are cut away and the image is left in relief. Paper is placed on the block, both are run through a press with pressure and the ink is transferred to the paper. The print develops in layers. I use a single piece of wood and first draw out the image. Using woodcutting tools, I cut away the areas to remain the color of the paper. The first color is printed and each piece of paper is carefully registered on the block before it is run it though the press. After all of the pieces of paper in the edition (plus a couple more for mistakes) are printed with the first color, the block is cleaned off and I cut out everything to be the color just printed. The second color is then rolled out and printed onto the paper. This process of cutting and printing is repeated until the print is completed. I usually print small editions of 12 -15 prints each. Many of these prints also include pochoir, a process where gouache paint is applied through a stencil. Using pochoir allows me to use specific localized color as well as gradated color and value.