Linoleum Block Prints ~ CITYSCAPES | Karen Whitman

• The Cat Came Back

  Linoleum Block Print, Paper, 12" x 9"

• Tinker Street, Woodstock

  Linoleum Block Print, Paper, 18" x 23.75". Tinker Street is Woodstock, NY’s main street, and the hub of my home town to which I moved from Manhattan in 1994. My main focus in printmaking is the cityscape, and this image…

• Towers

  Linoleum Block Print, Paper, 12" x 9"

• City Glow

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12". City Glow is inspired by a stucco building with a southwest feel in the heart of Manhattan’s West Village. The illuminated night sky with moon crescent dramatically silhouttes clouds as l…

• One Way

  Linoleum Block Print, 17-7/8" x 14". One Way was sketched at the NE corner of W. 69th St. and Columbus Ave. in Manhattan, looking South. In this print, the signs, traffic light and lamp posts are the main focus of the p…

• Boulevard Boogie

  Linoleum Block Print, 34-1/8" x 24-3/16". Boulevard Boogie is a linocut inspired by the graceful sweep in the road at the intersection of Jerome Ave. and Sheepshead Bay Road in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, one of the five…

• Silent Shroud

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12". Silent Shroud is a Manhattan rooftop scene featuring all my rooftop favorites: a water tower, ventilation pipes and skylights, all highlighted by a shroud of fresh snow. A night sky silho…

• After the Parade

  Linoleum Block Print, 11-13/16" x 8". After the Parade depicts a lone cat strutting along an apartment building’s cornice with only some balloons still left after a parade is over. An American flag still waves in front…

• Midtown Mambo

  Linoleum Block Print, 24" x 36.75". Midtown Mambo captures the energy and vitality of Midtown Manhattan. The buildings (including the Con Edison, the Empire State, the Chrysler, and the Citicorp buildings) lean and sway…

• Backyards in Winter

  Linoleum Block Print, 36" x 20-5/8". Backyards in Winter depicts the view from my window at 12 W. 68 St., where I stayed in the winters of 2005 and 2006, and is where I actually carved this block. These yards are betwee…

• Beyond the Bridge

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12". Beyond the Bridge is a meeting of structures from around the city, including a factory from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a water tower and building from Great Jones St. in Manhattan, as well a…

• Rooftop Rhythms

  Linoleum Block Print, 18" x 23-7/8". Rooftop Rhythms depicts the view of the rooftop at 12 W. 68 St., where I stayed in the winters of 2005 and 2006, and is where I actually carved this block. The building is at the bac…

• Moonlit Tower

  Linoleum Block Print, 12" x 9". Moonlit Tower zooms in on a lone moonlit water tower with a long ladder on one side and a vent pipe on the other, the main character in this scenario; and a cat in a big old comfy chair p…

• Solitude

  Linoleum Block Print, 24" x 33.5". Solitude was inspired by an intersection in Queens in New York City, characterized by a well-placed traffic island and Do Not Enter sign. I wondered, what if that sign was a warning to…

• Fantasia on Brooklyn

  Linoleum Block Print, 35-3/8" x 23". Fantasia on Brooklyn is just that - an urban fantasy! The Manhattan Bridge towers and dances over the cityscape. I've alluded to the Brooklyn Brewery (if you can find it!) and the tr…

• Brooklyn Bridge with Sloop Clearwater

  Linoleum Block Print, 12" x 9". Brooklyn Bridge with Sloop Clearwater is a work from imagination, although real references were used for both the bridge and the Sloop Clearwater, the replica (brainchild of Pete Seeger)…

• West Side Vista

  Linoleum Block Print, 12" x 9". West Side Vista was my view from a W. 72nd St. apartment in the 1990's, beyond the western edge of the building adjacent to the Dakota (right) off of Central Park West in Manhattan, looki…

• Birdwatcher

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12". Birdwatcher depicts a view from my window when I lived in a brownstone building on the upper west side of Manhattan. A woman looks up at a pigeon who in turn is looking at the viewer. The…

• Bay Window

  Linoleum Block Print, 12" x 9". Bay Window is set overlooking a New York City park. The elegant bay window is illuminated against the night sky, adorned with the crescent moon, and the larger window silhouettes an intri…

• Moonlight with Light Breeze

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12". Moonlight with Light Breeze features one of my favorite city subjects ~ laundry blowing in the wind. Not to mention skylights, water towers, cornices and the crescent moon. This image was…

• Village Morning

  Linoleum Block Print, 17" x 21". Village Morning began as a sketch from a friend's window at 10th St. and 6th Ave. in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The left one third of the picture was, for the most part, drawn from li…

• Downtown

  Linoleum Block Print, 31.5" x 18". Downtown is a playful portrait of daily life in New York City. While it doesn't depict an actual street, the Brooklyn Bridge establishes its downtown location. Residents work, play, wa…

• Tugboats at Midnight

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12". Tugboats at Midnight was among the prints created by a dozen contemporary printmakers, depicting the Staten Island Waterfront for a 2006 exhibition entitled "Tide Lines" at The Noble Mari…

• Village Lights

  Linoleum Block Print, 8" x 10". Village Lights started as a sketch from a friend's window at 10th St. and 6th Ave. in Greenwich Village. Most of the elements were actually there to observe, but liberties were taken with…

• Dome, The

  Linoleum Block Print, 9" x 12"

• Trio

  Linoleum Block Print, 19-7/8" x 13". If Trio is a mystery to you, you are not alone. It is to me as well. I was doodling one day on a 4” high block and these 3 characters appeared. I didn’t know who they were, where the…