To view a three-color stone lithograph by Noble W. Curry that is currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, please CLICK HERE.
For those who are interested, a stone lithograph is a print "pulled" from a finely ground slab of limestone on which the artist has drawn primarily with an oily crayon-like pencil. The stone is then carefully processed so that where the oily drawing was, a fine lithographic ink adheres when it is rolled onto the surface by hand. The process requires considerable finesse and knowledge of chemistry. To create a multi-color print in this way also requires the ability to visualize overlapping colors and textures. Noble Curry, being both a highly skilled drawer and painter, was able to do this with dramatic success.
