Glen Earl Alps
1914–1996

Introduction

Glen Alps (1914-1996) was a printmaker and educator who is credited with having developed the collagraph. A collagraph is a print whose plate is a board or other substrate onto which textured materials are glued. The plate may be inked for printing in either the intaglio or the relief manner and then printed onto paper. Although the inventor of the process is not known, Alps made collagraphy his primary art form and coined the word "collagraph" in 1956. He disseminated the techniques he developed for making collagraphs during his long career as both an artist and a teacher.

Wikidata identifier

Q5567571

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Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, educator, sculptor

ULAN identifier

500112461

Names

Glen Earl Alps

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