What is a fine art lithograph?
Fine-art lithographs are created by hand in a process that dates back to the 18th century and is the origin of the modern offset lithographic process. A separate plate is used to print each color (33 in the example, Summer Mist) and each plate is hand-drawn by the artist or a chromiste. The plates are printed one at a time and each color is allowed to dry before the next one is printed, giving the artist an opportunity to see how the colors are building and to make changes, if necessary. An example is Summer Mist by Paul Landry. A Greenwich Workshop “fine art&148 lithograph is published from an original painting; an “original” lithograph is created directly on the plates without an origianl painting as a guide. The Greenwich Workshop does not overlook this distinction.
