1986 "Defiance" Robert Alrich American Indian Limited Edition Print

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Defiance, American Indian, Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Apache, Blackfeet Limited Edition Print, 1986
Continuous Tone Lithograph from 17 Plates, on fine … Read more Defiance, American Indian, Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Apache, Blackfeet Limited Edition Print, 1986
Continuous Tone Lithograph from 17 Plates, on fine art paper
25 1/2 × 32 3/4 in
64.8 × 83.2 cm
Edition of 500

A vintage Native American Indian print signed by artist Robert Alrich from the 1980's featuring a native American man sitting in front of a mountain, holding a war drum. Printed on high quality art print textured paper.

This is a very rare limited edition print that was printed by a special printing process, call Continuous Tone printing, which uses no dots.

About the Continuous Tone Printing Process:
Screenless lithography, by eliminating the use of halftone screens and halftone dots achieves extraordinary fidelity, fullness of tone, color and detail, impressive color saturation and clear line resolution. Museums, fine artists and publishers with exacting standards use this remarkable process to re-create their finest works of art. Continuous tone lithography (as in a photograph with no dots) evolved from collotype printing. When Black Box Collotype ultimately closed its doors in 2004, it was one of just a few printers left in the world that had mastered the collotype process. While it was a highly desirable reproduction process for the fine art world, it was a laborious, time consuming (read “expensive”) process. Since there was no screen involved, a collotype print could be 27 colors without fear of a moiré. But in the old days, on Black Box’s one-unit press, those 27 colors had to be laid down one color at a time. So the most complex jobs could take months to complete.

Offset lithography is far faster and less expensive than collotype. Suddenly, four colors and halftone dot patterns were “good enough” because they were so economical. Black Box Collotype was one of the last printing houses in America, if not the world that used the collotype-continuous tone process.
Medium Print
Condition Excellent Pristine Never Circulated Condition
Signature Hand-signed by artist, Hand Signed and Numbered in Pencil by the Artist
Certificate of authenticity Included (issued by gallery)
Frame Not included
Series American Indians See less