Snapshot In Time: When Carol Summers was mixing the ink for this pizzazzy still life picture around 10 years ago, there were a lot of "jungles" in the news. George of the Jungle opened in movie theaters all over the country and FTD florists were advertising new gigantic "jungle" arrangements with lots of big tropical flowers. In all parts of the country appreciation for Retro style art and architecture and interior design was just revving up!

Art Smart Fact: JUNGLE BOUQUET is not only a color woodcut, it is also a monotype. The definition of a monotype or monoprint is that it is the edition of one print which makes it as unique as a single watercolor or oil painting. Each of the woodblock prints in the small edition of JUNGLE BOUQUET is also a monoprint. On each print, one at a time by hand, Carol Summers rendered both the palm tree fronds and the design on the front of the bowl-shaped vase. However, all hand-pulled or hand done woodcuts, silkscreens and lithographs are actually unique in some small way..... it is impossible for a printmaker to make each print in an edition exactly the same as the one before it when the printmaking is done by hand and not on a machine-run press. It is similar to hand-stitching versus machine stitching on a quilt. The human factor will not allow exact replication. But this is a good thing and one reason hand-pulled fine arts prints are typically much more expensive and valuable than prints photomechanically reproduced.

About The Art: "Creating a still life has all the excitement of putting on a play in which I get to be the playwright, set designer, director, star, supporting cast and even audience," wrote author Robert DeVoe. He could have been referring to JUNGLE BOUQUET, one of Summers more whimsical woodcut prints and one of only a handful of still lifes this master printmaker has created in decades of work. The high-color, retro cafe curtains that frame the picture will create a virtual window on any wall wherever this woodcut print hangs. The bowl, filled with a mini-tropical landscape, makes a pizzazzy picture perfect for a place where there are palm trees found or wanted!

Note: With every purchase of an original Carol Summers woodcut you receive free a four-color, 48-page Catalog Raisonne; a four color, 64-page 50-Year Retrospective Exhibition Catalog (including a color woodcut frontispiece); and the museum poster ROLLING SEA.....all personally signed by Carol Summers! Each of these items can be acquired separately here at Peggity’s.