Glen Alps, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Glen Alps

American printmaker

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Loveland, Colorado, United States

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1996

Profession: printmaker

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Glen Alps

  • Glen Alps was a printmaker and educator who is credited with having developed the collagraph.
  • A collagraph is a print whose plate is a board or other substrate onto which textured materials are glued.
  • The plate may be inked for printing in either the intaglio or the relief manner and then printed onto paper.
  • Although the inventor of the process is not known, Alps made collagraphy his primary art form and coined the word "collagraph" in 1956.
  • He disseminated the techniques he developed for making collagraphs during his long career as both an artist and a teacher.

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