Featuring nearly all of the prints in Norma Bassett Hall?s (1888?1957) graphic oeuvre, and published to accompany the exhibition Chipping the Block, Painting the Silk: The Color Block Prints and Serigraphs of Norma Bassett Hall, this is the first comprehensive publication of works by the consummate printmaker. Hall employed line, color, and pattern with delicate skill, interpreting the geographic richness of North America and Europe as she traveled and sketched with her printmaker husband, Arthur William Hall. Whether depicting the windy coast of Oregon, the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, or idyllic scenes in Scotland and France, Hall?s prints evocatively capture village walls of rosy warmth, violet skies at transitional hours, and figures in domestic tableaus. Norma Bassett Hall: Catalogue Raisonn? of the Block Prints and Serigraphs reproduces more than 110 illustrations by the artist, and author Joby Patterson charts the travels and development of the artist with chapters dedicated to the various locations where she lived and worked.
