"When they had the Plaza Art Fair many teachers from the Art Institute took part. I did woodcuts with Cecil Castensen and his wife Blanche. I'd go over and the guys were cutting on wood blocks. Blanche and I exchanged prints with each other. Cecil didn't act like a teacher around us, even though he was a teacher." Jean Howard
The Playground, image size 12" x 14 1/2" , color woodcut, 12th of 24
"In this Playground print Cecil and Blanche both did the cutting, but, as you can see, she got the credit. Her name is on it. Cecil taught sculpture and, besides teaching printmaking and batik, Blanche was best known for the textile projects she stitched on." Jean Howard
For more on Cecil Carstensen and his wife Blanche Carstensen, click on
http://www.umkc.edu/WHMCKC/Collections/I1009KC.HTM
Ms. Howard is a member of the Nelson Atkins Print Society
and an oil painter and watercolorist.
You can see more on her website
(accessed August 8, 2013)
