Art by Ann McCarty

We’re grateful that you’re considering investing your hard-earned money in prints of Ann’s paintings, and Ann and I want to assure you that we’ve gone to considerable trouble and expense to ensure you get your money’s worth and then some.

First, Ann and I did not pick just any medium for the pigment ink to fall on. Prints of Ann’s work go on premium German etching paper made by the legendary Hahnemuhle company, which has been in the business of making papers and other fine media for more than four centuries (since 1584). We selected Hahnemuhle’s German etching paper for these prints, a archive paper that weighs in at 310 grams per square meter, is age resistant and totally chlorine free (TCF), ensuring chemical stability decade after decade.

We picked Old Town Editions of Alexandria, Virginia to handle the scanning of Ann’s paintings and production of these fine prints. Old Town uses the Better Light scan back camera model Super 6K, which generates an image with a resolution of up to 9,000 x 12,000 pixels. That’s the reason these images retain the fine strokes of Ann’s brush. This scanning camera is not one you'll find in homes around the country. As of early 2008, the suggested list price is in excess of $16,000.

Old Town Editions stays with premium equipment all the way through, reproducing Ann’s work on the Canon iPF 9000, a 12-color printer rendering a resolution of 1200 by 2400 dots per inch. It achieves this resolution by producing pigment droplets of 4 picoliters (trillionths of a liter) in volume. This printer uses Canon’s Lucia pigment inks, a proprietary pigment formulated specifically for fine art production. This is no second-rate unit. At the time of this writing, the suggested list price for the iPF 9000 was roughly $15,000.

With this combination of quality inputs, these prints may last for as long as 100 years with no sign of fade, thus ensuring your investment will outlive you. Where else can you find a value like that?

So what is the value of your investment in landscape prints of Ann McCarty’s artwork? Take the amount you’re investing and divide it by 36,525, the number of days in 100 years, including leap years.

For a print that requires you to invest $100, you are paying roughly one quarter of a cent per day for a print that your great grandchildren – maybe even your great great grandchildren – will see as adults.

And they’ll look at the label on the back of the print and be amazed at the gift you’ve left them. You’ll leave many fine legacies, but most cannot be seen. Won’t this be a nice way to remind succeeding generations of the  heritage you've left them?

Feel free to contact our friends at Old Town Editions of Alexandria, Virginia.

703-684-0005 

www.oldtowneditions.com