Mary Azarian's Groundhog

Happy February! Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. I mailed out my annual cards yesterday, so hopefully people get them in time, or at least only a day or two late. I'll post that print on this blog tomorrow. But for now, enjoy this charming woodcut of a groundhog made by one of my all-time favorite woodcut artists Mary Azarian and found in her 1992 publication of A Country Calendar.

Mary Azarian's Winter Trees from 1992 Calendar

A friend of mine gave me two "Country Calendars" published by Mary Azarian's Farmhouse Press in 1992 and 1993. This stark and uncomplicated woodcut accompanies the month of January.

I am haunted yet oddly mollified by the absence of footprints or animal tracks in the snow. The black and bare trees are all that escape cover.