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 Fox Graphics - Master Printer of Lithography - Printers of fine art.
Now Retired.
The production of stone lithographs in the traditional manner is a highly specialized technical process. With the development of modern offset printing in the 1940s, the market for hand lithography was taking its place in history.
FOX GRAPHIC'S (from Journal of the Print World)
In its day, the Merrimac Grange Hall (Mass.Historical Site#17) was known as the "largest theatre in these here parts". Built in 1839,the imposing Greek Revival,has served the residents of Merrimac, Massachusetts, as a church, meetinghouse, public school,
movie house, dance hall, World War I armory and bandage factory, and for many years Merrimac's best and only theater.
One summer the historical Merrimac Grange Hall (Mass.Historical Site #17) was **purchased by Master Printer Herb Fox of Boston's Fox Graphics Editions on Bromfield Street. Limited to house his growing variety of custom printing presses, with one particular French antique in mind. It is, his 10-ton VOIRIN rotary lithographic poster press (NOW SOLD) built in Paris in 1880. At home, on a 6" thick cement floor reinforced with steel rods."The Jewel" is capable of printing original posters from artists drawings on traditional Bavarian limestone's in the same way that Lautre's and Bonnard's were done 100 years ago.
***BUILDING SOLD IN 2000, MASTER PRINTER HERB FOX IS NOW RETIRED, and selling his 30 year collection of prints.Please feel free to ask any questions about the artist's or the prints. The spots you may see on some pictures are from the slids, the print's will not have the spots
Thank you for looking at this fine collection of my work and others. Not Copy's or reproductions!
Herb Fox ~ Master Printer of Fine Art~ |
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