New Monotypes by James Lancel McElhinney at William Havu Gallery
New monotypes by James Lancel McElhinney monotypes were produced by renowned master printer Michael Costello of Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, who has also worked with artists such as Woody Gwynn, Edgar Heap of Birds, Forrest Moses, Nathan Olivera, and Kay WalkingStick. These unique images are created with 100% archival materials; printed with oil-based inks on Rives BFK etching paper, using a technique known as Chine-collé (Chinese-pasted), in which the painted image is printed onto a thin sheet of semi translucent paper, secured to the substrate paper with wheat starch paste. The paper used in this process is Kitakata Awagami—an acid-free Japanese paper made of Philippine gampi fibers. A unique linear image was drawn by hand onto the Kitakata with a bamboo pen in orange ink. Each monotype was made with multiple impressions on a Takach etching press.
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Moonrise White Rock Canyon, coming off the press at Hand Graphics Santa Fe
James Lancel McElhinney was featured in the new book The American West in Art: Selections form the Denver Art Museum (2022) and in the March 2023 issue of Western Art Collector magazine.
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His artworks can be found locally in the collections of the Denver Art Museum Petrie Institute for Western Art, and the University of Denver Library Special Collections. His works are also found in the collections of:
Albany Institute of History and Art. Albany, New York
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
City of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives.
Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Archives and Special Collections
Swarthmore College. Library Special Collections
Temple University. Samuel L. Paley Library Special Collections
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut
And private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Zealand.