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