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Tom first started silk screening in high school during the height of the “Flower Child” period. Psychedelic posters were all the rage so Tom and his brother would cut stencils out of lacquer film and adhere it to a screen with lacquer thinner. They got the poster board given to them from a local match book company. They were also in charge of rally posters done with poster paint and hung up on the school walls the day of the game. You would see rows of posters drying in the hallway after school normally done in one psychedelic color.

From 1973 to 1976 Tom worked at Kinduell Screen Products; Wilder, Kentucky. After graduating from Northern Kentucky University in 1976 with a major in communications and a minor in painting Tom moved to New York City. After two years working on Madison Avenue in advertising he left becoming a full time portrait painter. In 1980 he started painting fine art while on the circuit of Nantucket, New York and Palm Beach. On home visits he would go back to Kinduell Screen as the “artist in residence.” The prints were done “Tour de Force” coming in early and leaving by the end of the day with a set of prints. Most prints received seven colors and sometimes one color would have to be put over another to adjust the hue. The paint shed held hundreds of specially blended colors for clients and Tom used these colors as his palette. Tom made the printing plates using a black lytho grease crayon drawing directly on the light sensitized screen then exposing it to light. The black of the lytho crayon blocked out the light and the emulsifier washed out. You only get a few prints from such a technique. If you look carefully at the collection of people under the awing you see what looks like a waiter leaning over to deliver a plate. That is Tom.

China Man

4-10" x 8", highest quality ink jet on excellent 100lb paper, 1/2 white border, $25, framed $150

2-10" x 8", highest quality ink jet on canvas, $30, framed $175

1-12" x 10", highest quality ink jet on excellent 100lb paper, 1/2 white border, $30, framed $175

2-12" x 10", highest quality ink jet on canvas, $35, framed $180

produced by Robin Color, Cincinnati, Ohio

Mt. Adams, Cincinnati, January 1 1988, Silk-screen on paper, 36" x 24", Edition of 50
Created using several rubber stamps of different screen stamped on acetate plates. Regular offset colors were printed, yellow, magenta and blue. A line drawing was included with each plate creating a black plate. The view was one Tom had come to know and love and painted many times from Riverside Marina in February. Riverside has since moved up river but when Tom painted he was able to work from the enclosed bar directly across from Mount Adams. A cold hillside in the dead of winter offered the best view for what Tom considers the best view of Cincinnati: Mt. Adams from the Kentucky side.
The three color plates of cyan, magenta & yellow were made by stamped impressions of oval halftones. Tom ordered several rubber stamps from Hathaway Stamps in various percentages of halftones like used for printing. By stamping the acetate plate with opaque black ink a halftone was created that could be used for creating shades of each of the printing colors: cyan, magenta and yellow. The end result was redder that predicted. This is the only print created from the oval halftone stamps.

Nantucket Series

Created using three acetate plates that were laid on top of a textured piece of clear plastic. Underneath was the master drawing. Each plate was created on the thin acetate using a black conte' crayon or grease pencil. Each plate represented one color of the three color process colors, yellow, cyan and magenta. By combining all the colors you printed black. A black plate was created by including it with each of the three color printings.

The images were the same views that Tom painted in Nantucket everyday during the summer. He would rotate from one to another view completing the canvas in one day. All told he completed several hundred paintings. He used the time to learn color and composition for landscape painting.

These views were part of the five different views of Nantucket’s Main Street fountain Tom painted. He painted these views over and over for two summers. These views were readily saleable and allowed him to create his landscape manner. The first year’s paintings were very rough.

In college Tom worked at a local silkscreen company and after leaving them he would occasionally go back there and do his own work. Tom was Kinduell Screen Products “artist in residence.” These prints present the advanced form of work that came from that association. The prints were created using a master drawing laid under a clear textured piece of Mylar then a thin layer of smooth acetate. Tom would draw the four plates on this thin acetate with a black grease crayon. The black and one of the color plates were then exposed on a light sensitized silk screen and printed. The sensitive nature of the exposed screen only allowed about thirty impressions. He hopes to someday go back and do some more prints like this.

Silk scree print of Zero Main Street by Tom Lohre.

Zero Main Street, 20" x 16" image on 24" x 20" on 90lb. paper, three color silk screen, edition of 8, The little dog is named Pokey, Paul Longeneckers dog of many years.

Silk screen print of the Pacific Club Nantucket by Tom Lohre.

Pacific Club 20" x 16" image on 24" x 20" on 90lb. paper, three color silk screen, edition of 30 The man carrying groceries is Kenneth Douglas, long time friend of Tom's. The jeep is Mrs. Anapol's. The fountain used to be a watering trough for horses. The building in the center is the Pacific Club. Now a men's club but in the old days it was part of the counting house for the whaling ships.

Silk screen print of Upper Main Street Nantucket by Tom Lohre.

Upper Main Street, 20" x 16" image on 24" x 20" on 90lb. paper, three color silk screen, edition of 20, The Pacific Club is on the right.

Four color reverse silkscreen print on glass of Nantucket cupola with the Statue of Liberty  celebrating the anniversary of the statue in 1986 by Tom Lohre.

Four color reverse silkscreen print on glass of Nantucket cupola with the Statue of Liberty celebrating the anniversary of the statue in 1986, 8” x 10”, 5 color silkscreen on glass, 3 pounds

Four color reverse silkscreen print on glass of Nantucket's Brant Point Lighthouse with the Statue of Liberty  celebrating the anniversary of the statue in 1986 by Tom Lohre.

Four color reverse silkscreen print on glass of Nantucket's Brant Point Lighthouse with the Statue of Liberty celebrating the anniversary of the statue in 1986. 10.5” x 12.5” 5 color silkscreen on glass, 3 pounds, typical cardboard photo stand glued to back.

Tom was the artist in resident from 1985 to 1989 at the James Hunt Barker Gallery. Jimmy wanted a souvenir of the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. Unknown edition, about fifteen each, not numbered or signed, three designs. Tom cannot remember the third design.

 

Marilyn Monroe silkscreen print by Tom Lohre

Marilyn Monroe, 28" x 40", image 17" x 33", Silkscreen, 48/50, 1980

Tom’s girlfriend posed for this print of Marilyn. Created using the litho crayon method and inks used for four color printing. Tom drew the three plates creating black from the combination of all three colors: cyan, yellow and magenta.

Silkscreen print of a Palm Beach polo grounds tailgate party by Tom Lohre.

West Palm Beach Polo Grounds Tailgate Party, 36" x 24", Silkscreen on paper,

Tom painted a 10” x 8” oil on canvas of the tailgate party after helping set up the event. The Rolls Royce in the foreground belonged to James Hunt Barker’s sister, Joyce. The green Bentley belonged to Kenneth Douglas, James’s partner. Kenneth and Jimmy entertain the wealthy with such lavish events complete with an artist capturing the event. Mr. Barker had an art gallery off Worth Avenue and Tom was the artist in residence, helping hang shows and taking care of the estate while he painted scenes and portraits. It was back in the day when the art world was moving away from fun and games and towards more serious artists. For six seasons, Tom found himself in Palm Beach from Thanksgiving to Easter, painting every day in paradise. Jimmy would give the paintings Tom painted at his events to a patron he was courting at the time.

Southernmost House, 36" x 24", Silkscreen on paper, December 20, 1988

Printed using a black lytho crayon to draw directly on a senmake the plates. The Southernmost House in Key West, Florida is a stately mansion tucked away in a sleepy corner of Key West with a curve in the road marking the southern edge of Key West. As you look out to sea a colorful large concrete column announces the edge. As you turn around you see this stately home in light emerald and deep pink. To get this view you have to trespass between two homes sneaking a peak at the estate from the view on the water. The actual southernmost point is on the military base. The one Harry Truman used to enjoy while president.

Maenad, 16" x 20", three color silkscreen, 1984

Created using a novel plate making process. The digital file was created in Illustrator then the three plates were printed as a tiled laser copy print on 8.5" x 11" acetate then assembled and silk screened.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A dancing maenad. This is a Greek statuette from the 3rd century BC. It was made in TarantoIn Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the most significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.In this state, they would lose all self control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear animals (and sometimes men and children) to pieces, devouring the raw flesh. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins\and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped by a pine cone, weave ivy-wreaths around their heads, and often handle or wear snakes



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