Fine-art printers · Providence, since 2011

Museum prints,
made slowly

We print the world's great public-domain paintings, and editions for living artists, on cotton paper with pigment inks. Every sheet is checked by hand against a calibrated proof before it leaves the studio.

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Screen print: five dark stones float on flat teal water under a coral sky.
Now printingInes Okafor, Still, five stones, 2024, from the series Five Tempers of Water.

01 Editions

This season's open editions

Four paintings we keep coming back to, each proofed against the museum's own photograph.

Van Gogh's Starry Night: swirling blue night sky over a village, a dark cypress in the foreground.

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

The Starry Night

Printed on baryta for the depth of the night blues.

From $180 · 4 sizes

Klimt's The Kiss: a couple embrace in robes of gold patterns on a flowered meadow.

Gustav Klimt, 1908

The Kiss

A warm cotton rag that lets the gold read as gold.

From $220 · 3 sizes

Van Gogh's Almond Blossom: white blossoms on twisting branches against a turquoise sky.

Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Almond Blossom

Our hardest blue, matched over eleven proofs.

From $180 · 4 sizes

02 How we print

Three rules, no shortcuts

The museum's file, untouched

We start from the largest file the collection publishes and never sharpen, upscale or "improve" it. Our job is to translate the painting, not to restore it.

Paper chosen for the painting

Baryta for dark oils, matte cotton for drawings and prints, warm rag for gold. Each edition names its paper, and we keep a swatch book you can ask to see.

A proof for every edition

Before an edition opens, a printer proofs it under daylight lamps against a calibrated screen. Most editions take three proofs; Almond Blossom took eleven.

03 The studio

Fifteen years at the bench

Prints made by hand
48,200
Open editions
64
Living artists printed
31
Returned for colour
0.4%

04 In their words

What artists say

I sent them a print I had pulled by hand and asked for an edition of thirty. What came back was indistinguishable from my own, except that every one of them was good.

Ines Okafor Printmaker, Five Tempers of Water

05 Visit

Come and see the proofs

The studio is open on Saturdays. Bring a painting you love and we will show you how it would print.

Where

Northlight Editions
212 Wickenden Street
Providence, RI 02903

When

Saturdays, 10 am to 4 pm.
Weekdays by appointment.

Ask first

Groups of more than six, please write to us so we can clear the bench.

One letter a month, when a new edition opens

No sales, no countdowns. Just the painting, the paper we chose and why.

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