Amanda Roth Block

Her superb color sense has always been Amanda's trademark.The figural work of Block, her most accessible, falls between the traditional and the avant-garde, between simple and subtle, between passion and control.

From 1960 until 1984 she produced hundreds of prints, paintings, drawings, and mixed media images, at which point she retired from active production.

Additionally during this time, she taught drawing and lithography at John Herron,[4] where she was thought to be a gifted and talented instructor.

Spending several weeks each winter in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, Maurice Block Jr., Amanda grew to love the desert landscapes and strong visual attributes of the area.

Evoking the sensibilities associated with geography writ large, mountains and seas, lakes, rivers, forests, and always the desert were the subjects of her broadly realized art.

[citation needed] A lithographer of some renown – Block taught stone lithography at John Herron for a number of years—the artist felt very comfortable in printmaking.

Eschewing the often blocky and repetitive style of her contemporaries, not interested in the facile or geometrical designs running through the art of the day, Block's prints fall vaguely into two categories.

As a drawing instructor at John Herron she always remained true to traditional principles and classic approaches to realizing the subject.