SW Artist Lynn Elton Baker "Apache Basket" Original Stone order Lithograph Limited Edition signed 1981

"Apache basket"

by Lynn Elton Baker

Original Stone Lithograph on white Arches Fine Art Paper

Hand signed by the artist in pencil

Paper Size: 24" X 18"

1981

Edition size: 60

Edition Number: 32/60

Excellent condition

Certificate of Authenticity is included

This original stone lithograph was printed at Southwest Graphics Workshop in Scottsdale, AZ in 1980.

What is an original stone lithograph?

When an artist creates a work of art on a stone plate, they make what is known as an original stone "lithograph." Because this is a highly specialized process, an original stone lithograph is NOT a reproduction but rather a one-of-a-kind unique piece of artwork. Lithography, or "stone art," was first used around 1789 and is based on the simple physical principle that oil and water do not mix. To create a lithograph, artists often draw an image in reverse on limestone with crayons. The stone is then dampened with water, which is repelled by the greasy medium wherever the artist has drawn their art on the stone. Afterwards, the stone is pressed with a massive roller loaded with oily ink which adheres to the greasy areas of the design, but is repelled by the wet areas of bare stone. Following this, the paper is pressed to the stone and the ink is transferred onto the paper. In a color lithograph, a different stone is used for each color where the stone must be re-inked every time the image is pressed onto the paper. Most modern lithographs are signed and numbered to establish an edition of the print.

An offset lithograph, also known as a limited edition print, is a reproduction by a mechanical process where the artist has in no way contributed to the making of an original print: that is, they have not designed the plate. Instead, printings, drawings, and watercolors are photo-mechanically reproduced. Very often an artist signs a number of these "reproductions," but they are not true original lithographs.

Lynn Elton Baker
Lynn Baker was born in a small town in the Midwest. He later attended a private art school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and then the Minnesota College of Art and Design.

Baker came to the southwest in January 1973, to accept a fellowship at the Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Since that time he has immersed himself in an investigation of the region's land and its heritage.

Fascinated by the vast beauty and the ancient, inventive cultures of the southwest, Baker soon began to explore both the area's physical landscape and the object of his own art. Of his work he says, “I believe it must be a synthesis not only of subject and medium, but of myself, my interests and my abilities as an artist. When I work, using an image like a polychrome jar, I'm involved not merely in the execution of a motif but in an exploration of all those qualities.”

Baker often uses a visual artist's medium such as pottery. About this Baker says, “In the creation of their pottery, the Indians have taken an ordinary utilitarian object and given it great beauty of form and decoration. I use a two dimensional medium to explore this beauty in an attempt to remove the possibility of response to these objects as decorated jugs. In my lithographs I hope to influence the viewer's perception of the pot as a complex blending of two and three dimensional forms and to expand that perception with my visual statement about the object's intricacy and beauty.”

Baker's works are an important part of many order public and private collections. He continues his exploration of the ancient southwester cultures, and his personal artistic expressions are inspired by his findings.


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