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Lithography is a "painter art" par excellence. It is an autographic process, representing the artist's touch absolutely, giving a straight reproduction of his drawing without the intervention of an engraver-translator. The resources, possibilities, flexibility of lithography are wonderful...
All this offered by a process based on the simple chemical fact that water and grease do not mix...
Frank Weitenkampf
"Lithography For the Artist"
American Magazine of Art, July 1918 |