RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)

This example from Richard Estes’ first collaboration with the Domberger workshop, a portfolio titled Urban Landscapes I, is typical of the artist’s photo-derived, evocative urban views and cityscapes. The frieze-like compositions carefully frame and reconstruct the shining surfaces of storefronts and restaurants. Their glass and metal facades create a rich pattern of signage and reflective planes. Screenprinting, a stencil process, was the ideal medium to approximate Estes’ elaborate, flat, and linear images. For Estes’ silkscreens he shipped painted maquettes to their German workshop, where the printers broke down the image into its general forms to create a series of silkscreens.