Giclee Prints

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giclee prints of paintings featured in the Online Gallery in sizes that will best suit your needs. All you have to do is let us know which painting and the size needed. We will promptly provide you with a quote which will include fees for handling and shipping. Full payment in advance is required for all print orders. William Crute will sign and title your print in pencil and will also make special inscriptions upon request.

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What is a Giclee print?

The art of fine art printing has become even more precise with the advent of the revolutionary Giclee (ghee-clay) printing process. For brilliant, exquisite color and razor sharp detail, it is unsurpassed. A Giclee print is simply the closest duplication of an original artwork that is humanly, mechanically, or technically possible.

The cornerstone of this process is enhanced digital ink jet printing. The word Giclee, itself is French, and means spurt or squirt, in this case meaning, “spray of ink.” From hundreds of inkjets, more than a million droplets of ink per second are sprayed on canvas or watercolor paper spinning on a drum. Once completed an image is comprised of almost 20 billion droplets of ink.

The resulting print has no perceptible dot pattern, an endless array of richly saturated color, and every nuance of the original image. The most archival, water-based lightfast inks available in the world are used. The latest inks offer a 70 year light-fast and UV-resistance under museum archival condition.

Giclee prints have an impressive exhibition record. They have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the world. A few examples are:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art—New York
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
National Museum of Art
The British Museum of Art