Glossary

Artist Proof (AP) - Additional prints not included in the regular limited edition, produced for the printer's consideration and approval.

Canvas Prints - These are created by offset lithographic printing directly on canvas, as opposed to on paper.

Our inks are specially adjusted for this technique, and the canvas we use has many of the same characteristics as the canvas that artists paint on.    

A Linda Hartough canvas print has the authentic look of a more expensive original painting and, like the original, is framed without glass.

Fine Art Serigraphs - Also commonly known as silk-screening, serigraphy is a time-honored technique, based on stenciling, for creating prints by hand.

Ink or paint is carefully brushed through a fine fabric screen, portions of which have been masked for impermeability.    

For each color, a different portion of the screen must be masked, and each color must be allowed to dry before the next is applied.    

Like Linda Hartough fine art lithographs, our fine art serigraphs are created from an original painting, and the artist can see and adjust the evolution of the colors through many proofing stages.    

This exacting process can use more than 100 hand-applied colors. The depth of color is almost luminous.

Giclée - a printmaking method using an ink-jet printer for photographic images of paintings to produce high-quality reproductions; also written giclee.  EXAMPLE:  In giclee, the ink is sprayed on to your choice of media in millions of colors utilizing continuous tone technology, retaining all the fine detail of the original.

Limited Edition (LE) - A fixed number of identical prints of an images, signed by the artist, sequentially numbered, and showing both the print's number and the total edition size. Each print is referred to as a "limited edition print."

Lithograph (lith·o·graph) - a print produced by lithography.

Lithography (li·thog·ra·phy) - the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.

Offset Lithographic Prints - Look for classic quality and consistent beauty in all our offset lithographic prints. This process affordably allows more people to own and enjoy a single work of art on paper than the original painting would.

Offset lithography is a photographic printing technique that uses inks, 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 inks and archival paper are specially made to our exacting specifications.    

While the industry standard for offset lithographic prints is often only four colors, we routinely create fine art prints in as many as ten different colors, resulting in unmatched clarity and color fidelity to the original.
Whichever work of art you choose, each offers its own unique qualities, and all offer you the pride and pleasure of owning a superlative work of art that might not otherwise be available. At The Linda Hartough Gallery, we will always choose the paintmaking technique that best suits the original.

Open Edition - Identical prints of an images, which are signed by the artist and published in unlimited number

Remarque - An original or printed drawing or marking made by the artist, usually in the margin of a limited edition print or on a small separate sheet of paper that accompanies the limited edition print. A remarque, especially if original, can add substantially to the value of a limited edition print.

Serigraph (ser·i·graph) - a print made by the silkscreen process.

Textured Canvas Prints - This unique and valuable technique replicates the look and feel of an original painting, including canvas texture and 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 on the canvas, or the artist can re-create the brush strokes him or herself.    

The mold is used with heat and pressure to bond the printed image to artist-quality canvas.    

The resulting fine art print captures the texture as well as the image of the original and is framed without glass.    

Published on a very selective basis and usually in much more exclusive editions, textured canvas prints have many of the popular attributes of an original.