What are Giclees?

The word “giclée” is a French term that means a spray or a liquid jet. Gene’s oil paintings and watercolors are scanned, digitized and printed with archival quality permanent inks on stretched canvas. Gene trusted Vada Color in Traverse City, MI to reproduce his art. Vada Color only uses high resolution scanning to capture Gene’s artwork. This studio system is used by museums throughout the world to produce color and detail. The artwork is then printed on archival canvas coated with a protective varnish and hand stretched over the best stretcher bars on the market. The results are a beautiful reproduction, in original dimensions, of a Gene Rantz painting.