Clip: Season 15 | 1m 10s | Video has closed captioning.
Thomas Leech, former director at the press at the Palace of the Governors, on Gustave Baumann's woodblock print titled "The Print Shop" also known as "Printing the Democrat." Bonus video from the MINIATURES episode, now streaming on the PBS App, pbs.org/craftinamerica, and craftinamerica.org. PBS broadcast premiere December 29, 2023 (check local listings).
Aired: 12/01/23
These are progressive proofs for a print Baumann titled The Print Shop or sometimes called Printing the Democrat.
It was a scene inside the Brown County Indiana Democrat newspaper.
It's three different blocks.
This is the first block.
It's called the key line block.
This carries most of the information for the press.
Then there's a background color, a gray and then the ochre the gray and the ochre together and then the final print has all three colors printed on it and they all line up perfectly to make this image.
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