BG 056

14" x 21" 1967

What power and confidence, huh? Wes Wilson is unstoppable now, churning out one masterpiece after another.

This poster was printed with what is called the "blended fountain" technique: A litho press has a bank of several long rollers (one or more of them an oscillating one) that smooth out the ink flow from the pickup roller, which pulls ink out of the long, wedge-shaped ink tray which is filled with the gooey gunk by slapping it in with a trowel. The ink settles in the v-shaped tray, and there is an adjustable blade at the bottom which controls the opening of a long slit that the ink passes through to the pickup roller.

In this case, one side of the ink tray was filled with cerulean blue, the middle was filled with orange, and the other side was filled with magenta.

As the inks blend on the rollers, the color blend smooths out and you get this effect....which makes every one of these posters unique, because the ink is gradually, but constantly blending, yielding a different result over the course of a print run.

Staple holes in the corners, but perfect condition.