Their three-dimensional printing technique has been perfected over the course of over 40 years. Today, in Los Angeles, many artists like Ed Ruscha, Donald Sultan and Alex Katz work with Mixografia, a company that was founded in Mexico three generations ago, and expanded to Los Angeles in 1984. The artists who worked with Ken Tyler, during his fifty year career, include Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, David Hockney and Jim Dine. (Graphic Editions Ltd.) in Los Angeles and, in 1975 he established Tyler Graphics in upstate New York.īesides inspiring artists and helping them to create outstanding fine art prints, Tyler designed the first of several hydraulic lithographic presses, a computer-controlled, power-driven combination lithography and etching press with a five-by-ten foot printing bed and, through a grant from the National Endowment for the arts, he did research and development into paper and embossing techniques. He graduated in 1963 with a Master of Art Education degree. An artist in his own right, Tyler studied printmaking at the John Herron School of Art in Indiana.

It was largely thanks to Kenneth Tyler that there was a resurgence of printmaking in the United States. They continued their work, not just with established masters like Joan Miro, but also with a new generation of artists, including David Hockney, Jasper Johns and Jim Dine. The Crommelynck brothers moved back to Paris in 1973, after Picasso’s death. The work that Picasso produced during the succeeding decade was magnificent, and also, prolific. Picasso had worked with the Crommelynck brothers in the 1960s, and when he moved to the south of France in 1963, the brothers followed. Younger brother, Piero Crommelynck, appears about 150 times in Picasso’s work. Picasso’s relationship with master printers, Piero and Aldo Crommelynck, lasted longer, and was more productive, than many of Picasso’s other liaisons.

The collaboration between artists and master printers often determines the quality of the work and, at times, the trajectory of an artist’s career. Over the centuries, artists have created masterful artworks on wood, copper and other matrixes to turn into high quality prints. Fine art printmaking is both an art and a science. At Vertu, we are dedicated to the acquisition of, and education about, fine art prints.

Fine art lithographic printing