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The Seattle-based company produced affordable, large-scale (up to 8 feet in length) limited-edition serigraphs featuring artwork by Hayslette for corporate and hotel interior decoration. Olympus Graphics developed a nationwide clientele before being acquired, and renamed Grand Image, by Larry Winn in 1984.
The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs being used as a medium for fine art. [ 4 ]
The company's founder William Burke Belknap the elder (1811–1884) was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, the son of Morris Burke Belknap the elder (1780–1877) and Phoebe Locke Thompson Belknap (1788–1873) and is not to be confused with William Burke Belknap the younger (1885–1965) or William Burke Belknap Jr.
Robert Dunlap Blue was born, 27 August 1946 in Los Angeles County, California, to Axie (née Dunlap) and Ben Blue, [4] [3] and grew up in Beverly Hills. [citation needed] He served in the United States Army and attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, earning a BFA at the Chouinard Art Institute (1969) [5] [6] in Los Angeles.
A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid (consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor) was used during the first half of the 20th century. Since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable, celluloid was largely replaced by cellulose acetate.
In 1924, Becker relocated the company to its current location in Sycamore, Illinois. [7] By 1949, it had become the United States' leading producer of wire nuts. [8] In 2010, Ideal acquired three American hand tool manufacturers: Western Forge in January, [9] [10] Pratt-Read in March, [11] [12] and SK Hand Tools in August. [13] [14] [15]
North Bros. tool brand was called Yankee, much as Sears tools are branded Craftsman, and every tool they sold sported this trademark. In later years the Yankee name would become synonymous with the spiral ratchet screw driver invented by Furbish but it was originally seen on everything from bench vises to cutting tools. Building upon the line ...
Footprint Tools is a hand tool manufacturer based in Sheffield, England. In 2014 most of their hand tools are still made in Sheffield at the Footprint factory ...