Original Loloma Stone Lithograph “Medicine Man” [SOLD]

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Charles Loloma, Hopi Pueblo Artist
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
  • Medium: stone lithograph on paper
  • Size:
    6-1/4” x 11-1/2” image;
    8-3/4” x 13-1/2” paper;
    14-3/4” x 18-3/4” framed
  • Item # C3838L
  • SOLD

This image, which Charles Loloma labeled “Medicine Man,” was executed as a stone lithograph. which is a process by which an artist draws an image with a crayon on a large flat stone that has a smooth surface.  Rosin and talc are then brushed on the image to protect and prepare it for the etching process.  An acidified gum Arabic solution is then spread over the image.  It reacts with the crayon to produce a “grease reservoir” which will accept the ink in the printing process.  In the surface areas where there is no crayon, the solution leaves a water absorbent gum jacket which resists ink.  After processing, the printer washes out the crayon with a solvent and rolls printing ink over the image.

 

In a print of more than one color, such as this one, each different colored element is drawn on a separate stone.  The colors which combine to create the final lithograph are printed one at a time.  The alignment of each of these colors is controlled print after print by hand and eye.

 

At the end of the printing process, the stone is ground to remove the image so that no other can ever be made and so that the stone can be used for another subject.  This image was begun on February 17, 1980 and completed on May 11, 1980.  It was printed at Southwest Graphics Workshop of Scottsdale, Arizona.  It was printed on white Arches paper in three colors and hand tinted with red watercolor after the edition was printed.

 

Charles Loloma (1921-1991) signatureThere were 100 copies printed in the numbered edition.  This is number 24 of 100 copies.   It is signed in lower right and numbered in lower left.  Official documentation is included with the lithograph.

 

Condition: original condition and mounted such that the full paper is visible.

Provenance: this Original Loloma Stone Lithograph “Medicine Man” is from a gentleman from Colorado

Close up view of the image in this lithograph.

 

Charles Loloma, Hopi Pueblo Artist
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
  • Medium: stone lithograph on paper
  • Size:
    6-1/4” x 11-1/2” image;
    8-3/4” x 13-1/2” paper;
    14-3/4” x 18-3/4” framed
  • Item # C3838L
  • SOLD

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