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Original Woodcut Tosca by T. C. Cannon Pai-doung-u-day - 25924
T. C. Cannon (1946-1978) Pai-doung-u-day "One Who Stands In The Sun" died young and left behind a beautiful, powerful oeuvre. He was born in 1946 in Lawton, Oklahoma, and died in an automobile accident in Santa Fe in 1978.
He had attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, studying with Fritz Scholder. He seemed somewhat bitter and distrustful of authority. One of his teachers suggested to T. C. that they get in two rocking chairs facing each other and rock and frown until all the aggression was gone. He was away from home for the first time, so perhaps his quiet and reflective nature was misread as bitterness.
In 1975, T. C. Cannon began a collaboration with Japanese master woodcutter Maeda and master printer Uchikawa, a collaboration that continued until Cannon's untimely death in 1978. The result was the publication of the Memorial Woodcut Suite. In 1978, Cannon traveled to New York to sign the first two of the completed Japanese woodcuts. He returned to Santa Fe and died in an automobile accident on May 8th. Cannon's father, Walter, signed the remaining woodcut prints for his son.