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Chromolithographs
Very few of Bessie Pease Gutmann's original paintings exist today, even though scholars believe she made over 600 illustrations. Most of the "originals" that are highly prized and collected today are chromolithographs reproductions of her paintings. Until the mid to late 1920's, most of Bessie's paintings were reproduced by the much better chromolithography printing process, rather than the emerging photo offset method. Gutmann and Gutmann (Bessie and her husband) printed all their later reproductions using nearly the same modern "photo offset" lithography process that is used today for most mass-printings of magazines, brochures and newspapers. In a few moments you'll see why her chromolithographs are so highly valued, and why our Giclées are the closest thing today to Gutmann and Gutmann's original chromolithographs.
Whereas the modern photo offset printing process uses a photo-mechanical halftone screen of four colored ink dots (often called the "four-color process") to reproduce art, the chromolithography process used randomly placed dots of ink coming from many hand-drawn stones -- a precisely placed stone for each dot color! Chromolithographs usually make use of many lithographic stone each of which prints one color. Properly registering so many stones, so they are precisely aligned one atop the other, is a technical feat in itself. Our Giclée process emulates the beautiful random dot pattern of the vintage chromolithography process so closely, that we are able to retain EXACTLY the same dot pattern as Gutmann and Gutmann's original chromolithographs! NO OTHER PRINTING PROCESS CAN MATCH OR COME THIS CLOSE TO THE GUTMANN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS.
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Chromolithography definition
Close-up examples of Chromos: "Thomas Moran's painting of the Great Salt Lake of Utah". (Click on any area that you would like to see close up.)
"19th Century Works on Paper" (In this Picture Quality Demo, be sure to click on the "10x" icon to see enlargements of the chromo's random dot pattern.)
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