Medium: Chine-collé
Chine-collé is a printmaking technique in which the image is printed onto a thin paper or tissue, such as rice paper or Japanese paper, that is attached to a thicker base paper. The thinner paper offers a background color to the image and pulls finer details from the plate. Usually, the thinner paper is first attached to the heavier paper using wheat paste and then run through the printing press.
Explore Chine-collé in the collection
Shilin Hora, Adam, etching and chine-collé, ca. 2001, 2001.1045.1.
Caroline Hardy, Sisters, aquatint with cine-collé, 2003, 2004.022.1.
Tony Fitzpatrick, The Coming of Locust, etching with chine-collé, 1992, 2017.12.91.
Resources in the Collection
Header Images
Left
Lee Ann Frame, Beginning, woodcut with chine-collé, 2006, 2006.271.1a.
Mili Thibodeau, Avoid Foods That Are Pretending to be Something They Are Not, monotype, drypoint, and chine-collé, 2010, 2022.41.2.
Jane Dandron, With My Head in My Hands, engraving, aquatint, and chine-collé, 2018, 2018.89.1.
Center
Tony Fitzpatrick, Hard Luck Number, etching with chine-collé, 1993, 2017.12.46.
Shilin Hora, Why Cannot Humans Keep Their Destructive Habits in Check, etching with chine-collé, 2001, 2001.1041.1.
Steven Sorman, Outside (Day), etching, woodcut, chine-collé on mould-made paper, 2003, 2010.20.5
Right
Mili Thibodeau, Untitled, etching, drypoint, monotype, and chine-collé, 2010, 2022.41.3.
Tony Fitzpatrick, The Cicada Making Rain, etching with chine-collé, 1995, 2017.12.100.
Stephen Koller, Hydrologic I, laster-print transfer, photogravure, intaglio etching and chine-collé, 2011, 2012.5.2.