1953 DAVID GENTLEMAN Lithograph Printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd 9x7ins. buy

Plastocowell Lithograph* by DAVID GENTLEMAN. 1953. Sheet size c.9x7 inches. Unmounted.

David William Gentleman RDI (born 11 March 1930) is an English artist. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos. Gentleman's first lithographs were posters for a Royal College of Art theatre group and a student exhibition. This print is amongst the very first of his work in this medium, completed when he was a student at the RCA.

Further image to reverse-does not show through.

*Plastocowell was a lithographic printing process invented by the printing firm W. S. Cowell of Ipswich. It was a compromise between photolithography, where colour printing plates were produced photographically from full colour artwork, and autolithography, where the artist drew directly onto the printing plate using a grease pencil, manually creating separate plates for each colour of ink. Plastocowell was a transparent film textured on one side so it could be drawn on. The artist produced their own colour separations and drew them on the film, which was then used as a photographic positive under which the printing plate was exposed. The material was registered as a trademark in 1948 and buy used extensively until the early 1970.

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