Trademark Fine Art 'The Great East River Suspension Bridge, 1881' Canvas Art by Currier and Ives

<ul><li>Artist: Currier and Ives</li><li>Subject: Cityscape</li><li>Style: Rustic</li><li>Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art</li><li></li></ul> <p>This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a captioned illustration of a large suspension bridge over a river full of sailboats.</p> <p>Prominent Colors: Tan, Grey</p> <p>Currier and Ives was a succesful Amreican printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives based in New York City from 1834 to 1907. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artistis as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people".</p> <p>Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that Giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.</p>