About The Artist:
Earl Klein
Painter, printmaker, and animator Earl Klein was born March 6, 1916, in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Cleveland School of Art, Chicago Art Institute, and the Meinzinger Academy of Detroit. His professional career began in 1936 with Jam Handy Organization in Detroit as an assistant animator, and in 1938 he relocated to Miami to join Max Fleisher’s Studio as a designer, working on the “Gulliver’s Travels” feature film and...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.