Image description

Micah Schwaberow, National Treasures, color woodblock print, 10 x 7, matted, signed, 54/54.

Artist

Micah Schwaberow is noted for his woodblock prints of miniature landscapes, still lifes and figure studies. He studied painting and printmaking in the US, and later studied woodblock printing in Japan at the atelier of master printmaker Toshi Yoshida. He has held teaching positions in Japan and California. Exhibited in Yosemite Renaissance 4, 10, 13 Text related to donated piece: Micah Schwaberow made this woodblock print to honor two kinds of National Treasures; our incomparable parks with their natural beauty and the rugged, entertaining and dedicated souls, like Carl Sharsmith, who care for them and teach us about them. This print required nineteen separate color impressions from carved wooden blocks.