Told In A Garden: Questions for Marilyn ;)
rosaleah
The "Told In A Garden" lithograph I got recently from a seller on eBay
(still to be seen at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=472970742&ed=97252929
4 ) is due back from the framer's soon ... got the spot all ready on my wall
(tho it *may* -- if she's very very VERY good -- become a wedding present
for my daughter) and am eagerly awaiting its return.
Meanwhile, I've been wondering what you can tell me about the print? I know
nada except how very nice it is ... when it was done, for instance, what the
story is behind the painting (knowing there's usually a 'story' -- I love
stories! -- & I've read about your Amish friendships over on your website),
etc. Whatever you'd like to tell. ;)
Oh, and are there lithographs of other paintings of yours out there to be
found? Was this perhaps one of a set??
Don't want to know much, do I? Heh. Am asking on the newsgroup rather than
emailing you cuz I thought others here might be interested, too.
Best regards,
--Rosaleah
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
This painting was done before I became a designer of cross stitch. I
used watercolors and I was very wasteful about using so much. Watercolor
is the cheapest to use when there is little money to replace the stock.
I did this painting to show that so many people think of amish as dark
and drab, plain and boring.....this painting was meant to show how
colorful their world is...how joyous their love is from childhood on
into old age. I had done two paintings before similar to this one...each
of them had a better looking tree (laugh) Only this one was done into
the lithograph that you purchased. It was to be a printing of 2,000 but
we only had the first 1,000 done because I didn't know if anyone would
want them. The first 350 were destroyed when we shipped them to stores
because the tubes were not strong enough. Then about 50 were ruined
because of improper handling. So the printing number on yours should say
what ever number out of 600 which is the true amount printed and
available for use. End of story!
I have about 100 left to sell...if anyone would like one
They can be seen on my website under paintings..oh and I think the other
of the three paintings are shown there aswell.
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
rosaleah
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum <mar...@tiag.com> wrote:
> OK.....
>
> This painting was done before I became a designer of cross stitch. I
> used watercolors and I was very wasteful about using so much.
Watercolor
> is the cheapest to use when there is little money to replace the
stock.
> I did this painting to show that so many people think of amish as dark
> and drab, plain and boring.....this painting was meant to show how
> colorful their world is...how joyous their love is from childhood on
> into old age. I had done two paintings before similar to this
one...each
> of them had a better looking tree (laugh) Only this one was done into
> the lithograph that you purchased.
Very interesting, Marilyn, thank you! The painting is so colorful and so
expressive of joy & love that I'd say you certainly succeeded in your
intention! It's absolutely wonderful. :)
> It was to be a printing of 2,000 but
> we only had the first 1,000 done because I didn't know if anyone would
> want them. The first 350 were destroyed when we shipped them to stores
> because the tubes were not strong enough. Then about 50 were ruined
> because of improper handling. So the printing number on yours should
say
> what ever number out of 600 which is the true amount printed and
> available for use. End of story!
::whew:: Wot an "adventure"! ://
But the numbering is dependent not on how many were made available (or
survived) but on how many were actually printed; it's more an indicator
of when in the run the print was made -- early, middle, or late -- which
is in turn an indication of the relative condition of the plates used,
so even if the first 350 were destroyed, #351 is still #351 in the
edition (now of 1,000 tho as only that many were printed & which is
still an edition of 1,000 even if only 600 are left).
Anyway, if the first 350 were actually destroyed, how is it that this
one is numbered 189 of 2,000? hmmmmmm... makes a body wonder. (And I
will have fifty fits if it turns out this is somehow a bogus copy.
jeepers!)
>
> I have about 100 left to sell...if anyone would like one
> They can be seen on my website under paintings..oh and I think the
other
> of the three paintings are shown there aswell.
>
> Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
Darn, I looked on your website before but didn't find this ... I'll look
again, more carefully.
I really appreciate your taking the time to answer my query. Thank you
thank you thank you!
--Rosaleah, posting from deja cuz mindspring & outlook express are being
crotchety tonite !!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Tom & Rita Liesch
> But the numbering is dependent not on how many were made available (or
> survived) but on how many were actually printed;
Actually, it is an indicator of how many (maximum) the printer expected to
print, not of how many were actually printed (which could be less, as in
this case with MLI). If, for some reason, more than 2000 had been printed,
the print number for the first 2000 would have the standard numbering, which
any additional prints made would say something to the effect of 2nd
printing, # out of # for those over 2000. The number of prints damaged in
shipment or ruined by whatever means does not enter into the total print
number.
The lower the number of your print (and the lower the number of actual
prints made) will affect the value to a collector.
Rita Liesch
rosaleah
--Rosaleah
"Tom & Rita Liesch" <lie...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:8vg0fp$su5$1...@slb1.atl.mindspring.net...
> Rosaleah wrote:
> > But the numbering is dependent not on how many were made available (or
> > survived) but on how many were actually printed;
>
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
When I numbered these I used higher numbers and went down rather than up
and then when they were destroyed I dropped to the bottom and went up.
You can tell I really knew what I was doing. Signing in pencil seemed
horrid to me but I was convinced that it was done that way. The first 25
were signed as AP (Artists Prints) When I went to the top numbers I
thought that I would raise the price as the demand decided. If I had 500
left then I would charge more and so on because I felt that the less
that existed would make them more valuable. Then the page we had the
numbers on got lost so I knew I had never used the middle numbers and so
on and so on....not kosher I know but the cross stitch business was
taking off so fast and making the prints was a lifelong dream.
If the rules say 1,000 were printed then that's what I'll sign the rest.
I still think it matters that 350 were truly unfit for anything. Stores
sent back pieces to get credit and that's what was left of them pieces.
Marilyn
rosaleah
(It's good to know. Thanks again!)
What truly concerned me was that the print (which is, btw, still at the
framers ... it's a week late and I'm gettin' anxious!!) might have been
withheld by someone who got credit for it as damaged when in fact it was not
... _that_ would have constituted theft, so I'm delighted to learn that
that's not what happened!!
It's truly wonderful for us all that the cross-stitch business took off like
that for you ... but I'm specially grateful you managed to get that print
edition made too! ;)
--Rosaleah
(btw, pesonally I think it would only confuse things further to change the
numbering from #/2,000 to #/1,000 ... 'sides, according to another response
here, #/2,000 is correct regardless of how many were actually printed as
being the number that were _intended_ to be printed. Then again, what really
matters to me, personally, is far more the print itself than the number
assigned to it!)
"Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum" <mar...@tiag.com> wrote in message
news:3A203950...@tiag.com...
> Dear Rosaleah,
>
> When I numbered these I used higher numbers and went down rather than up
> and then when they were destroyed I dropped to the bottom and went up.
> You can tell I really knew what I was doing. Signing in pencil seemed
> horrid to me but I was convinced that it was done that way. The first 25
> were signed as AP (Artists Prints) When I went to the top numbers I
> thought that I would raise the price as the demand decided. If I had 500
> left then I would charge more and so on because I felt that the less
> that existed would make them more valuable. Then the page we had the
> numbers on got lost so I knew I had never used the middle numbers and so
> on and so on....not kosher I know but the cross stitch business was
> taking off so fast and making the prints was a lifelong dream.
>
> If the rules say 1,000 were printed then that's what I'll sign the rest.
> I still think it matters that 350 were truly unfit for anything. Stores
> sent back pieces to get credit and that's what was left of them pieces.
>
> Marilyn
>
> rosaleah wrote:
> >
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
still put the 1,000 and before it the number then sign in pencil...Why
pencil?
Marilyn
Tom & Rita Liesch wrote:
>
> Rosaleah wrote:
> > But the numbering is dependent not on how many were made available (or
> > survived) but on how many were actually printed;
>
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
craft shows where I sold many many little rose paintings and paintings
of victorian ladies for $5 and $10
Once I went with my daughter and we didn't take cash because we knew
someone would buy one...well no one did and just at the end this old man
who was very well dressed came up and bought a painting of a single rose
and he stared into my eyes so deaply that I was enbarassed. We rushed to
get something to eat.
A couple of months later there was a big spread in our local paper about
this sculpture who was world famous they had a large picture of the man
and it was the man who bought my rose.
I can still remember his gaze and to me it was one of the finest praises
I have recieved. That and the time a room full of people clapped for me!
Wow...I was blown away!
It almost beat out the birth of my babies but that was another time and
another place.
Marilyn
ps I know I'm going to bed already!