Tom Killion

Image Size: 11 x 13.5 inches

First Printed: 2023

Printing History: This 10-color woodcut print was produced from a sketch Tom made in early October 2017 among Sierra Junipers on the Bishop Pass trail where it winds down from Dusy Basin to LeConte Canyon and the John Muir trail. The first snow of the season was sparkling on the ridge of Devil’s Crags across the canyon in clear early morning light. The print was completed in July 2023 in an edition of 175 plus 25 artist’s proofs and a few oddly-colored working proofs. Two types of Torinoko paper were used on the edition: on almost all the edition the usual white Torinoko, and on a few prints a ‘natural’-colored Torinoko (numbers 16-32 & 101-104). An extra layer of thin ink along just the ridgeline of the distant mountains was added on the white Torinoko paper prints. A few of the artist proofs were printed on a natural-colored Echizen kozo paper. The entire edition is now Out of Print.

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Image Size: 9.5 x 11

First Printed: 2020

Printing History: This view of Black Mountain (also known as Elephant Mountain and Coyote’s Knuckles) from Inverness Ridge was sketched in the spring of 2019 from a dirt road above the artist’s studio. The town of Pt. Reyes Station appears on far right, above the wetlands at the upper end of Tomales Bay. This 6 color-layer multi-block print was completed in late 2020 in an edition of 185 plus 20 artist’s proofs. The last artist’s proofs are still available from this website.

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Image Size: 13 x 11 inches

First Printed: 2022

Printing History: This view from the Mt. Elektra/Mt. Ansel Adams ridge on the SW border of Yosemite NP, looking East at sunset, with alpenglow on the Minarets and a lightning storm behind, was sketched by Killion in September 2015. He carved the blocks in early 2022 and completed the printing in mid-April. Four color blocks with an extra sky layer and the key block make this a 6-color print. Special pressure printing make-ready on the cylinder tympan produced the glow around the chain lightning (see “Showcase” page for photos of process). Available as original multi-block print in edition of 175 plus several artist proofs.

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Image Size: 12 x 9 inches

First Printed: 2021

Printing History: The misty forest of foxtail pines on a mountainside near the top of Lost Canyon in the High Sierra is many hundreds of years old, some of the dead trees have probably been standing for well over a century. This five block multi-color edition of 180 was completed in February 2021, from a sketch Killion made in 2013. (A small Black&White edition of just the key block image is also available on Single-Color Prints page).

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Image Size: 14 x 11.25 inches

First Printed: 2021

Printing History: This view of a spreading coastal Live Oak tree on the slopes of Boronda Ridge, Big Sur, was created from a sketch Tom did in April 2002, when the Lupines and Owls Clover were particularly thick. Multi-block reduction cut with 11 color layers, completed July 2021. Edition of 192, plus 10 a.p.s & 4 w.p.s. Colors of grass range from early April green to more yellow-green of early May.

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Image Size: 13 x 9

First Printed: 2019

Printing History: From a sketch done in March 2018, while ‘Artist in Residence’ at Zion N.P. The view is from the mountainside above Angel Landing rock, with the White Throne cliffs in background. Multiblock reduction cut, 10 color layers (9 on last 50 of edition). Edition of 175 plus 13 artist’s proofs and 2 working proofs. Edition prints still available.

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Image Size: 12 x 11

First Printed: 2017

Printing History: Multi-block print with four color layers completed in edition of 150 plus several proofs in Feb. 2017. This print was made to celebrate the naming of Mt. Thoreau in the Fall of 2015 by a group of writers and artists. Mt. Thoreau sits opposite Mt. Emmerson flanking the eastern side of Piute Pass above Bishop. Less than 50 remain in edition.

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Image Size: 11x8.5

First Printed: 2016

Printing History: View from the Golden Staicase to the Black Divide on the John Muir Trail, 4 color layers, blocks carved and printed in an edition of 175 plus 6 artist's proofs in 2016.

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Image Size: 13x10 inches

First Printed: 2014

Printing History: The view from Little Claire Lake east of Mineral King in Sequoia, N.P., looking across Big Arroyo, Chagoopa Plateau and the rim of Kern Canyon to Mt. Whitney. Multi-block reduction cut with 12 color layers, printed in an edition of 175 plus several artist's proofs spring 2014. Edition prints have one more layer of color on foreground rocks. 

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Image Size: 14.5x12 inches

First Printed: 2011

Printing History: Edition of 170 printed from 2 blocks in early 2011. Based on a sketch from a 12-day backpack trip in the Alaskan Arctic in the summer of 2010. Thirty prints remain.

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Image Size: 7x2.5 inches

First Printed: 2007

Printing History: Three first edition states with different colorings printed early 2007 along with special California Native Plant Soc. (CNPS) edition of 40 titled "Douglas Iris". First edition Satate I: 100 plus 15 artist's proofs; State II (slightly darker purple) 30 plus 9 artist's proofs; State III w/ green iris leaves and reddish purple flowers, 20 plus 2 artist's proofs. Edition III of 165 plus 5 a.p.s printed 2024 (pictured) Available.

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Image Size: 13.5x10.5 inches

First Printed: 2009

Printed broadside on heavy paper with reproduction print of Killion’s “Mt. Tamalpais from above Green Gulch” and Gary Snyder excerpt from the book “Tamalpais Walking.” Limited edition of 200 printed to commemorate book release event in Point Reyes Station. Signed by Snyder and Killion. Only 30 of these remain available. (Note: This is not an original multi-color print, it is a limited edition printed broadside produced by Point Reyes Books).

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Image Size:4x7 inches

First Printed: 1999

Printing History: First edition of 82 printed 1999; edition II (2007) of 85 plus 2 artist's proofs; ed. III (2024) of 214 plus 6 a.p.s.

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