Kathleen Cantin - Autumn Leaves - Limited Edition Print - Antiques

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$650

Kathleen Cantin - Autumn Leaves - Limited Edition Print

Price:

$650

Location:

Saint Paul, MN

Description:

Autumn Leaves By Kathleen Cantin Signed And Number Limited Edition Print 4/260 1982 22 ? X 18?Typically Cantin Limited Edition Prints sell for $600 - $1000 or more unframed. This print is professionally framed with a Birdseye Maple Frame and conservation matted adding an additional $300 to this prints value, bringing the value to at least $900 to $1300.THIS PRINT IS OUT OF CIRCULATION AND COMES WITH A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTISITY I am selling it for only $650. If you would like to see them in person please call 651-756-XXXX.KATHLEEN CANTIN Kathleen Cantin is an accomplished artist, etcher and printmaker, lives in North Carolina and has been making original etchings for over 35 years. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire and has participated in some of the nations most prestigious print exhibits including the 2nd United States International Graphics Annual, the 23rd Berkshire Museum Exhibition, Boston Printmakers 30th Annual Exhibition, Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition, and the 39th Exhibition of Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers Society of Washington, D.C.Kathleen Cantin's expert command of the etching medium led to further honors when she was awarded commisions by the N.H. Graphics Society, President and Mrs. Derek Bok of Harvard University, the Franklin Mint, and Collector's Guild. Prints by her may be found in the collections of the Smithsonian Institute, the Philadelphia Public Library, the Decordova and Fairbanks Museums, The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and in numerous galleries throughout the United States. Corporate collections include Hawk Mountain Corporation, Proctor Trust Company, and The Burlington Savings Bank.Awards include the Helen Slottman Graphics Award from the Pen & Brush Club, New York. Using the same techniques perfected hundreds of years ago, Kathleen Cantin creates beautiful, original prints today.One of the most beautiful forms of printmaking available to artists today is the intaglio process a process that produces an original etching. Like other kinds of printmaking, the etching process results in an edition of multiple originals: a limited number of finished prints, all created personally by the artist and all subtly different. What makes etchings so special is the fact that the artist is so closely involved in the actual platemaking process.Today many kinds of art are just photocopied from an original, and the artist isn't involved in creating the actual print. But in an etching, all the work is done on the plate. It's a very time-consuming method. An etching is basically different from any other art form in the way it's created and printed. There's a different depth in the line, and when it's printed, you get a three - dimensional effect in the paper.You can do things with an etching that you can't do with any other media. Each etching makes its own fingerprint. They have a greater depth of color and tonal value because the paper is run through a press while damp. This forces the colors into the fiber of the paper.Leonardo and Rembrandt did etchings, and they haven't changed much since. An etching is truly one of the most original and most beautiful forms of printmaking.What Exactly Is an Etching ? An etching falls under the a whole special category called "intaglio prints." In any kind of intaglio printing, the portion of the printing plate that will accept ink is cut into the plate itself; the ink falls into grooves below the surface of the plate.When making an etching, the most common surfaces to begin with are zinc and copper plates. Zinc is less expensive but does not stand up as well over long printing. Copper is harder and gives a very fine, beautiful line. Once the plate is chosen, the artist's printer prepares it by covering its face with an acid-resistant ground, usually asphaltum. The artist draws his image into the ground with any king of sharply pointed tool. (He may draw directly into the ground, or he may first transfer the image onto the ground through a piece of tracing paper on which he has sketched the image.) He is not actually cutting into the plate with the tool, merely leaving a definite line in the asphaltum. Today it is often more common to make prints using a photographic process, shooting a picture of the image onto a plate that is sensitive to the negative image and printing conventionally from those plates, however that is not an etching. With an etching the artist must be satisfied with the image drawn on the plate, the plate is immersed in an acid bath, which eats away-or etches-the lines into the plate.Depending on how long the plate is left in the bath, the lines will be deeper (and wider). The deeper the line, the more ink it will hold and the darker the color on the finished print. Once the plate is finished, it is ready to be inked and placed on the press. With the simplest etching, a single color of ink is applied to all the lines on the plate. The plate is then carefully wiped clean-first with a specially prepared, stiff cheesecloth material-then with the palm of the printer's hand. Inking and wiping are crucial to the final appearance of the etching. While an artist can do his own printing, it is usually done by a professional printer under the close supervision of the artist.A plate must be inked and wiped for each print pulled in an edition. While simple etchings are printed in a single color-usually black or brown-more artists today add color to their prints, either through printing with different colored inks or adding hand coloring to the finished print. Two or more different colors of ink can be added to a single plate, or different plates can be etched to hold different colors. It is rare that an etching will be printed from more than four plates, however, or incorporate more than 10 colors of ink.Once the plate is inked, high-quality rag paper is dampened and laid on it to go through the press, which consists basically of a press bed and a heavy roller. Because the paper is dampened, the pressure of the roller forces it into the etched lines to accept the ink. The pressure is also so great that it invariably embosses a line around the image where the edge of the plate is forced into the paper.This is one way even novices can tell that the print they're looking at is an etching. The ink you put on a print is an integral part of the etching medium. Kathleen creates four or more plates to put color on an etching and does no hand coloring. She creates the master plate and watercolors a print from it to get an idea of the mood she wants to create with color. She has to figure out how she will create the mood she wants with multiple plates. Sometimes she'll have eight or nine colors on one plate, and we'll have to wipe very carefully. When she's done, it looks like a fine painting. It takes a lot of time to create an etching this way.Not all artists restrict themselves to adding color through inking the plate. Handcoloring has become a popular device to finish off an etching, but not all artists approve of the method. In art school, we are taught that handcoloring is taboo-an etching is technically a print, and so everything in it should be printed. Kathleen has recently perfected a technique to enhance the colors in some of her images. In combination with a brighter paper that she has begun using, this has given an added boldness and more clarity to details in these prints.

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Antiques

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Black

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August 6 on Americanlisted