Woodblock Print by Sam Gant: 553-1423 Plane, Framed

A gray propeller plane chugs across a yellow sky, with three stubby clouds keeping it company.

This framed woodblock print, 553-1423 Plane, is by Sam Gant (1955 – 2000), contemporary, in ink on paper. In woodblock printing, the artist cuts away everything that should stay blank. The plane is drawn in thick dark outline, gray-bodied, with a round tail, a single wheel and a spinning propeller. Behind it, the yellow ground is crossed by rough horizontal strokes of black. It is signed in blue pencil below. It is 24 inches wide and 28.5 high, the image 12.5 by 13.

Cleared for takeoff, and in no particular rush.