Raymond Loewy / Skylab

Involvement of Artist with Printer

The artist created a maquette for the lithograph after a circa 1972 rendering created by the artist's design firm. Using this design as a model, mylar sheets (one for each color), were prepared by Gino Diomaiuto, under the artist's direction, and then chemically transferred onto emulsion-coated aluminum lithographic plates at the American Atelier in New York City.

A first proof was pulled. The artist corrected the first proof by hand. A second proof was pulled, and approved by the artist. The entire edition was then pulled one color at a time under the supervision of Technical Director, Mauro Guiffreda at the American Atelier.

Each print in the edition was inspected and initialed by hand in pencil by Loewy at The American Atelier in December 1978.