Hope
- Date:
- 2020
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (woodblock print)
- Dimensions:
- 26 × 35.6 cm
- Image courtesy of
- Artist website
Description
Hope (2020) is a mokuhanga landscape print in which Brodbeck likely renders a spare natural scene — open water, a horizon line, or emerging light — to evoke a conditional, forward-looking mood. Her water-based pigments on washi characteristically produce soft, luminous gradations through multiple bokashi passes, giving atmospheric transitions between sky and earth or water and shore. The title suggests a threshold subject: early spring ice break-up on a Great Lakes inlet, or the first light reaching a forested edge. Printed without heavy outline, forms emerge instead through tonal layering built across successive carved blocks, a hallmark of Brodbeck's mature technique.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hope was created by Mary Brodbeck in 2020.
Hope depicts landscapes.
Hope measures 26 × 35.6 cm.