Terry Redlin

The Redlin Art Center defines a limited edition as a reproduction that is signed and sequentially numbered by the artist. The signature is usually in one of the lower corners, beside a number that looks like a fraction: the print’s own number over the size of the edition.²²

Many Redlin prints are open editions, and these are neither signed nor numbered. The art center describes the Encore and Encore II prints (image 18 × 10½ inches), the Elite prints (24 × 14 inches) and the Museum Canvas (39¾ × 23 inches) that way. Some of them come with a certificate of authenticity, so a certificate does not by itself make a print a limited edition.^8,9,12

He stopped signing prints when he retired in June 2007. The holiday limited editions issued after that are numbered but not signed: Winter Wonderland in 2007 (2,007 prints) and The Sharing Season II in 2014 (2,014 prints). Each has a printed remarque in the lower left margin.^1,15,14

An auction listing for a 1992 copy of Winter Wonderland shows what an original edition looks like: an offset lithograph on paper, signed in the lower right margin, numbered 6,205 of 29,500, with the title printed at the center of the lower margin and a certificate of authenticity on the back of the frame.⁶

Another listing, for the 1990 print O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, records two signatures: one printed in the plate at lower right with the date 1990, and one by hand in pencil in the lower margin. That copy is numbered 7244 of 29500 and came with a certificate of authenticity from Hadley House.⁷

Artist’s proofs are marked AP and numbered separately. The art center says they usually make up 10 percent of an edition, and the prints here bear that out: 950 proofs beside an edition of 9,500, and 2,950 beside 29,500.^22,8,9,19

A certificate of authenticity for a limited edition records the title, the artist’s name, the edition size and the print’s own number.²²

Two kinds of canvas are limited and hand-signed. The Legacy Canvas is made at the size of the original painting, in editions of 500 for the two titles here that have one. The Master Canvas is a canvas transfer the same size as the limited-edition print; Twilight Time has one in an edition of 1,950.^11,16,9

Some signed prints were never limited. The Sharing Season of 1985, his first Christmas print, was a signed open edition.¹³

The Redlin family has released prints from its own collection through the art center, which says they are numbered, hand-signed and part of the original editions.⁸

Some small formats show only part of a picture. Pinnacle prints (11¼ × 20 inches) are a vertical slice of a larger image, and Companion prints are vignettes taken from one.^12,20

His pictures also appear on collector plates, which he began to issue in 1985, and on goods from coffee mugs to jigsaw puzzles. These are not prints.^2,3

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