Vintage Car Print - 1953 Superior Cadillac Hearse - Cadillac Fins - Cadillac Ranch - The Black Swan

Vintage Car Print - 1953 Superior Cadillac Hearse - Cadillac Fins - Cadillac Ranch - The Black SwanTreasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 14 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us. This image is a hauntingly misguided bit of promotion, but still delightfully and strangely beautiful. As is often the case, the

Treasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 14 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

This image is a hauntingly misguided bit of promotion, but still delightfully and strangely beautiful. As is often the case, the original of this was a mess. The restoration process proved frustratingly difficult to the point that I set it aside twice, working on other images that were somehow easier to breathe fresh life into, but months later I had at it a third time and that proved to be the charm.

This started as an advertising blotter for a custom coach builder who specialized in hearses on Cadillac bodies, from back when we needed blotters to scratch our nibs and adverts on them were more common than not. While I make sure I take this to the major antique car shows, I sometimes bring it along to any number of more unlikely venues. There always seems to be one or two folks who are drawn to it enough to bring it into their lives.

Everytime a proper ballerina in full tack dances on point behind a Superior Coach, an angel gets its wings...

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.