Gray Winds, 1976; Lithograph; Image: 565 mm x 380 mm

They Ride the Wind, 1977; Lithograph; Image: 567 mm x 653 mm

When the Sun Takes Over, 1978; Lithograph; Image: 569 mm x 660 mm

Passing Winds, 1978; Lithograph; Image: 565 mm x 662 mm

Where the Clouds Began, 1978; Lithograph; Image: 660 mm x 605 mm

Blue Reflection, 1978; Lithograph; Image: 762 mm x 565 mm

The Way Out, 1995; Lithograph; Image: 562 mm x 381 mm

Hot and Cold Winds, 1981; Lithograph; Image: 569 mm x 761 mm

Clinton Cline’s work emerges from his vast printmaker’s intuition. His playful exploration of dimensionality and patterning combine with an indulgence of instinctive mark making. Cline notes in an artist statement that his compositions begin with a mark and proceed from one to the next, in a complex choreography of mind and body. His use of color is restrained, blues and grays, sepia  blacks, even if the lithographs are separated by many years. When a saturated red or yellow appears in these invented landscapes it adds to the drama.

Cline recently donated sixteen additional prints to the collection, the majority from the mid-1970s.

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