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Original lithographs by Parks Reece. Page 3...
The lithograph shown above, "Live Bait",
took Parks about 120 hours to draw the plates, 24
in all. Two hundred and seventy-five originals (plus
proofs) were crafted and the plates were destroyed.
These originals are considerably more valuable than, for
example, "posters" made from a conventional
offset press, with the visual qualities of the original
lithographs winning out hands down. If you look closely
at an original lithograph with a magnifying
glass, you will see many irregularly shaped and
sometimes bizarrely colored ink dots that might remind
you of the way a field of wild flowers looks scattered
wanton in a mountain meadow. That's the work of an artist. On the other hand, if you do the same with a poster produced on an offset press, you will see a monotonous pattern of regularly shaped dots all exactly the same size. That's the work of a commercial printing press.
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There are fourteen of Parks' lithographs shown on our store section for sale. Click on each image to see a larger version. Keep in mind that what you are looking at now over the web is a seriously compromised rendition of the originals- the web only displays 200 or so colors, and a typical Parks Reece lithograph has several thousand colors when you consider that inks interact on paper in complex ways. All of Parks' original lithographs are on 100% cotton coventry -290 grams using ball grained aluminum plates and handschy ink. Limited edition of 275 numbered pieces, 25 artist's proofs, 5 printer's proofs, and in a few cases 25 publisher's proofs.
Contact us directly for pricing and availability or click on our Gallery above.
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