Garfield County Jailhouse Art Prints

Jailhouse Art

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It is our goal to help preserve the jailhouse art on the concrete walls of the old jail, and we are donating 25% of all net proceeds to Garfield County, Oklahoma, so that these one-of-kind works will be available in their current state for future generations to see them as they are on the walls.

As for the prints, they are historically accurate in color and have been painstakingly matched to each of the paintings in the old jail. Your print is an exact color match to what the brothers painted in 1976.

All of the prints are printed by Helen Shafer at Red River Digital in Edmond, Oklahoma. Kat Kirkpatrick worked with my wife and I in ensuring the color match. Both Helen and Kat did an outstanding job on this project which began in 2020.

The paper used for the prints is the Hahnemuhle German Etching paper, which is a traditional mold-made copperplate printing paper. This white art paper, made from 100% alpha-cellulose, is characterized by its extraordinary velvety tactile feel and its fine, clearly defined felt structure.

This unique surface texture is a perfect fit for the Jailhouse Art prints that were painted onto the bare concrete walls of the old Garfield County Jail. The texture of the concrete has not been hidden within the paper, but highlighted in the most subtle of ways.