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Originally Posted by Stanka Kordic
Great suggestions everyone, in the nick of time for me. I have a few additional questions:
Can one request the help of a spouse and still remain married after completing the stretching ordeal?
I need to ship said stretched 6'x4' canvas overseas. What is the best way to do this? Remove, ship and restretch?? after all that? OR...Crate??
help.
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Stanka, most people I know that have stretched canvases of that size would roll them for shipping, and have a trusted person on the other end, re-stretch them. It is much less expensive to ship, and I assume that is the main reason to do it.
Linda and Garth may recall that Paul Newton had his award winning painting at the PSA conference rolled up to ship from Australia. He rolled it back up and took it on the plane home, too. It was a commission, so it was indeed something that he needed to be careful about. I'm sure it was done on commercially pre-primed acrylic gessoed canvas. Anyway, it wasn't too old.
Oh, yes, Linda, as far as "what is too old" goes, I don't really know. But, I imagine you can get away with a lot, depending on the thickness of paint and on the particular ground. I have a couple of paintings from when I was 12 years old that are rolled up and, when unrolled periodically, do not show any cracks whatsoever. They were done on canvas paper (whatever that is). On the other hand, I have 6 year old pre-primed canvas from Rigacci's in Florence, Italy, on a wide roll that is all cracked and fissured. It is useless. Paintings done on it are very crack prone already. The priming is some sort of glue-chalk concoction, and no matter what the claims of flexibility are by the manufacturer, it isn't.
Juan