It always amazes me how the technology of today keeps evolving, whether it’s with computers, automobiles or fine art.
Clients contact us here at B&R Gallery from all over the world as they locate us on the Google.com site by putting their favorite artists’ names in Google’s search engine.
Fortunately, we come up on a number of the artist entries as number one or in the top three picks. You can do an experiment and go to www.google.com and put in artist names Bev Doolittle, Howard Terpning, Robert Copple and Pino and see how many of our customers connect with us.
Recently we shipped a Howard Terpning fine art giclee canvas (a digitally photographed painting reproduced on canvas) to Germany to a very satisfied customer. He commented that having the canvas reproduction was like owning an original by Terpning, who just turned 80-years-old. If you could afford an original by Howard you might spend more than one million dollars, as four of his have sold for more than a million in the last six months.
Today’s digital technology makes it possible to squirt tiny droplets of archival ink onto a canvas with incredible clarity and brilliance. One of the definitions of giclee is to squirt – a French word. It now makes it possible for the average individual to own a Howard Terpning canvas reproduction. A collector of original oil paintings in Washington state that I recently spoke to, sold three of his Howard Terpning originals for more than one million dollars each at auction recently and now has replaced some of these with limited edition giclee canvas reproductions by Howard. You too can go to your favorite gallery and locate giclée by your favorite artists. Today’s technology, fortunately, makes it possible for many of us to enjoy fine art.
For more information, please call B & R Art Gallery at 661-298-2038.