11x46 Elite Professional 1.5" Deep B2 Stretcher Frame Kit

True 46:11 Custom Proportion - 11x46 Size

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22x92

Elite™ Professional 1.5" Deep B2 Bar • 1/2" Canvas Clearance

A Canvas Clearance of 1/2" is the space between the Bar and the canvas. Generally speaking, more clearance reduces the risk of the canvas touching the wood and creating unsightly lines during painting. Our design provides the optimal clearance so as not to impact your painting, but still leaving enough wood to the maximize strength of the Stretcher Bar.

No Finger Joints!

Solid Wood is far superior to finger jointed wood, which is many small pieces glued together, each with varying grain densities that absorb and shed moisture at varying rates, expanding and contracting non-uniformly as environmental conditions change, and causing the wood to bow and the finger joints to eventually fail.

A single homogeneous kiln-dried solid wood Stretcher Bar outperforms and outlasts a finger jointed Bar whose sole purpose is to save the manufacturer cost, not contribute to the archival value of artwork intended to last a millennium. As a manufacturer, Masterpiece® does its part to conserve as much wood as possible, and still provide a quality product that will out-perform any other in the marketplace.

• Super strong Elite™ B2™ Stretcher Bar is 50% stronger than most others in its class
• For this 11x46 large size frame, the frame provides the ultimate foundation for your art with increased strength and stability
• Produces a 1.5" deep stretched canvas
• 2-1/4" wide Stretcher Bars
• All Bars have an exclusive groove on the inside perimeter of the frame to which cross braces and Diamond Corner Braces attach
• Solid Ponderosa Pine or Fir from the Pacific Northwest

Sustainability in our Forests and our Communities

At Masterpiece®, we believe in responsible and sustainable business practices. That's why we only use lumber from sustainably managed forests in our products. By doing so, we can help to protect our planet's forests, reduce our environmental impact, and support the communities that depend on these valuable resources.

17x52 is the Canvas Size Needed for this 11x46 Frame

Please note that you will need a canvas that is at least 6 Inches larger than the actual frame size to ensure proper stretching. This will provide ample material to stretch the canvas and attach it to the back of the frame. If you prefer to attach the canvas from the edge of the stretcher frame, you can reduce the size of your canvas by approximately 3/4" all the way around the frame. This will allow you to paint on the edge of the canvas and hang your artwork without needing a separate picture frame. And, if you ever need to remove the canvas from the frame and re-attach it, you'll have enough material to do that too.

Masterpiece® is a family-owned business operating in California since 1965 and producing the finest Stretcher Bars in North America. We deliver the highest quality and highest performing products in the business. We are widely recognized as the nation's leader and trendsetter of professional quality fine-art canvas. We own several patents that make our products perform superior to any other on the market. Once you touch one of our products, you'll immediately recognize our impeccable quality—and more importantly, so will your clients and those who acquire your art

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. ♦ Claude Monet

Monet, a luminary figure in the Impressionist movement, embraced the world with a palette of colors and an insistence on capturing the fleeting moments of light. His perspective wasn't just confined to his canvases but spilled into his insights on the very nature of artistry. The sentiment behind this quote captures an essential truth: creation, above all, is a process, and often, a messy one.

Artists throughout their careers face the looming specter of perfection, the stifling fear of not meeting an elusive standard. Yet, Monet reminds us that the essence of creation isn't perfection, but the act of creating itself. For us, it's in the brush strokes, the blending of colors, and the evolving understanding of our vision that the true essence of artistry is found. We grow, evolve, and find our voice not in the absence of flaws, but in their embrace. After all, in the relentless pursuit of art, the journey often holds more value than the destination itself.

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Embrace the synergy of this profound quote with our interpretation of it's meaning with a nice little portrait that we created of Claude Monet. Time to create!