I’m working on a project about US Route 62. It’s one of the early US Highways. The road runs from Niagara Falls, NY to El Paso, TX.
Versailles, KY has a special place in my heart, not only because it?is US 62, but it is the home of Laura Lee Cundiff, the artist who blessed us with her press (which now lives at the Log Cabin Print Shop)
Whenever I visit a small town for the first time, the town square is one of the places I always stop. Each courthouse has its own personality–and I find it to usually represent the ‘heart’ of the community.
Versailles has a charming little church beside/behind their courthouse. US Route 62 is lined with small businesses. A few, with an impressive dome or steeple. I’m always looking for architecture that breaks up the empty space in the sky. This scene in Versailles had all my favorite things, so I squeezed them together in this woodcut.
Woodcut on heavyweight, acid free, 100% post consumer fiber paper Printed (with a traditional press) and signed by the artist Image dimensions: 9x 24″ Paper dimensions: 13″x26″ Free Shipping (rolled in a tube) Watermark on bottom right of photo not on actual woodcut.
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Ken is a self-taught artist from rural Kentucky, whose work includes painting, printmaking, and pottery. He considers himself to be a 'lifetime learner' and he uses art as the vehicle to explore and learn more about the world around him. Much of his work reflect his optimistic views on rural folk culture, river life and simple pleasures.
Before the pandemic, You could visit Ken every Final Friday of the month at studio 400 at the Pendleton Art Centerin downtown Cincinnati. Now, he's mostly sitting on his front porch ,keeping a social distance, in the Historic Village of Old Washington, KY.
