Bidspirit auction | LYLE MATOUSH ”A VIEW THROUGH

LYLE MATOUSH ”A VIEW THROUGH THAT MAN'S LAND” - Limited edition mezzotint on paper by Oregon artist & print-maker, Lyle Matoush (1930-2021), signed lower right, titled lower left ”A View Through that Man's Land” & numbered 13/15, lower center. Art measures 18” h x 22” w mounted in a frame measuring 31” x 35”. Provenance Matoush was part of a cohort of young instructors after WWII who revitalized print-making between the 1950s and ‘70s. Along with Glen Alps at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Gordon Gilkey at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Matoush taught printmaking as an ideal medium to allow art students to explore making multiples of their work while retaining a tactile sense of their original process of creating images. In addition, he was a founding member of the Northwest Print Council, an organization that was founded to support and promote printmakers in the region.