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Detail from
Best Seat in the House
by William S. Phillips
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William S. Phillip's Best Seat in the House illustrates the classic
quality and consistent beauty of our offset lithographic prints. This process
affordably allows more people to own and enjoy a work of art than the original
painting would. Offset lithography is a photographic printing technique
that useslinks, carried by rubber rollers called printing blankets, to transfer
images from metal plates to paper. Not all prints are alike, however, even
at the same price. Our links and archival paper are specially made to our
exacting specifications. While the industry for offset lithograph prints
is often only four colors, we routinely create Greenwich Workshop fine art
prints in as many as eighteen different colors, resulting in unmatched clarity
and color fidelity to the original.
Greenwich Workshop paper
The paper upon which Greenwich Workshop prints are produced is a custom-made,
neutral-pH sheet. The paper is designed for whiteness and brilliance,
as well as longevity: in accelerated life testing by the mill, the paper
has shown it can last not just for years, but for centuries.
Conservation framing
When you purchase a Greenwich Workshop limited edition print, please be
certain that only conservation framing techniques are used to preserve
the quality and value of your investment. Choose non-reflective conservation
glass and acid-free matting. Likewise, be certain that no alteration,
such as cutting or trimming, is done to your print in the mounting process.
Finally, take precautions as to where you hang the print; avoid direct
sunlight or proximity to sources of room heat.
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Detail from
Isabella
by James C. Christensen
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James C. Christensen's Isabella was created by specialized print
makers who use customized ink-jet technology specifically for fine art.
This technique is also called Iris printing, after the brand name of a
particular printer, or "giclée." Each second, the ink-jet
printer produces over four million droplets of ink that combine to form
more than two thousand shades of color. Cheyenne Split Horn Headdress
was printed on the same archival watercolor paper that Bama used for the
original painting and must be treated as carefully. Greenwich Workshop
fine art ink-jet prints are identified by the chop marks of the printer
and The Greenwich Workshop.
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Detail from
Crossing the Ford
by Howard Terpning
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Greenwich Workshop textured canvas prints—such as Howard Terpning's
Crossing the Ford —are published on a very selective basis. This
unique and valuable technique replicates the look and feel of an original
painting, including canvas texture and, at times, artist's brush strokes.
The image is first printed by offset lithography with oil-based inks on
a thin piece of oil-based material. A mold of the original painting can
be used as a guide to create a feeling of brush strokes, or the artist
can re-create the brush strokes. The mold is used with heat and pressure
to bond the printed image to the artist-quality canvas. The resulting
fine art print captures the texture as well as the image of the original
and is framed without glass.
No canvas transfers!
Canvas transfer has become a generic term that is not the standard by
which Greenwich Workshop canvas should be referred. Most transfers are
a chemical process by which inks are lifted from the original medium (usually
paper) to another (canvas). Most inks, papers, and printing processes
were not designed for this use so there can be a breakdown in color. We
cannot control the image fidelity and will not put our name on this process.
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