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What is an Artists Proof?
Artist's Proofs are Prints intended for the Artists use. It is common practice to reserve approximately 10
percent as Artist Proofs
What is a Serigraph?
Serigraphy is the artist’s term used to describe the art of silk-screening, an adaptation of the ancient
method of duplicating an image by stenciling. Today’s serigraph represents the highest evolution, and most complex manifestation
of what is the simple process of stenciling.
The development of screenprinting was an evolutionary process shared by numerous unknown artisans in the past. One who is known
was Samuel Simson, who applied for, and was granted a patent in England for a process of painting designs on silk. It was very much
like the method used in the Middle Ages, but this process used a glue-like substance that filled the spaces in the fabric, creating a fixed
stencil. The printing inks were forced through the uncoated areas with a stiff brush. In the 1920’s, the squeegee, a flat, rigid board with
a flexible rubber edge was designed to force the printing ink through the fabric with more efficiency and uniformity than was
attainable with stiff brushes.
TIn 1940, The National Serigraph Society was founded in the U.S. to exhibit and promote screenprinting throughout the world. Carl
Zigrosser, then curator of the prestigious Philadelphia Museum of Art, coined the expression “serigraph” from the Latin word for
“silk”, seri, and the Greek word for “to write”, graphos. It took two more significant developmental and creative pushes before
serigraphy was considered a legitimate fine art printing medium.
The first push was provided in the 1950’s by Lutpold Domberger in Stuttgart, Germany. He offered his print studio to prominent artists
associated with the Op Art movement. Respected artists like Josef Albers and Victor Vasarely combined their artistic visions with
Domberger’s relentless pursuit of perfection as a screenprinter. They created superior, finely executed serigraphs which were sought
by art galleries and collectors around the world. These efforts, combined with the experimentation of such artists as Jackson Pollack
helped to keep the screenprint medium in the forefront of printmaking. This sparked an explosion of creativity in the field, which
followed in the 1960’s, with the next great creative push. The Pop Art movement, and Andy Warhol in particular, gave the medium it’s
ultimate legitimacy in the fine arts.
The marriage of artisan and artist, together with the use of the remarkable advances in technology, has led to the creation of
serigraphs which are not only technological marvels but exquisite works of fine art. Serigraphs are produced in limited editions in
order to control their rarity and the screens are destroyed once an edition is completed. Each print is signed by the artist and
numbered. An additional attribute of a serigraph is that, each print may vary slightly because it is printed by hand, and thus is
considered to be a unique itself.
Artist's Proofs are Prints intended for the Artists use. It is common practice to reserve approximately 10
percent as Artist Proofs
What is a Serigraph?
Serigraphy is the artist’s term used to describe the art of silk-screening, an adaptation of the ancient
method of duplicating an image by stenciling. Today’s serigraph represents the highest evolution, and most complex manifestation
of what is the simple process of stenciling.
The development of screenprinting was an evolutionary process shared by numerous unknown artisans in the past. One who is known
was Samuel Simson, who applied for, and was granted a patent in England for a process of painting designs on silk. It was very much
like the method used in the Middle Ages, but this process used a glue-like substance that filled the spaces in the fabric, creating a fixed
stencil. The printing inks were forced through the uncoated areas with a stiff brush. In the 1920’s, the squeegee, a flat, rigid board with
a flexible rubber edge was designed to force the printing ink through the fabric with more efficiency and uniformity than was
attainable with stiff brushes.
TIn 1940, The National Serigraph Society was founded in the U.S. to exhibit and promote screenprinting throughout the world. Carl
Zigrosser, then curator of the prestigious Philadelphia Museum of Art, coined the expression “serigraph” from the Latin word for
“silk”, seri, and the Greek word for “to write”, graphos. It took two more significant developmental and creative pushes before
serigraphy was considered a legitimate fine art printing medium.
The first push was provided in the 1950’s by Lutpold Domberger in Stuttgart, Germany. He offered his print studio to prominent artists
associated with the Op Art movement. Respected artists like Josef Albers and Victor Vasarely combined their artistic visions with
Domberger’s relentless pursuit of perfection as a screenprinter. They created superior, finely executed serigraphs which were sought
by art galleries and collectors around the world. These efforts, combined with the experimentation of such artists as Jackson Pollack
helped to keep the screenprint medium in the forefront of printmaking. This sparked an explosion of creativity in the field, which
followed in the 1960’s, with the next great creative push. The Pop Art movement, and Andy Warhol in particular, gave the medium it’s
ultimate legitimacy in the fine arts.
The marriage of artisan and artist, together with the use of the remarkable advances in technology, has led to the creation of
serigraphs which are not only technological marvels but exquisite works of fine art. Serigraphs are produced in limited editions in
order to control their rarity and the screens are destroyed once an edition is completed. Each print is signed by the artist and
numbered. An additional attribute of a serigraph is that, each print may vary slightly because it is printed by hand, and thus is
considered to be a unique itself.