Description
17x41 Elite™ Professional B2 Frame Kit • 1-1/2" Deep • 41:17 • B2K-1741
Our Masterpiece® Elite™ Professional 1-1/2" Deep Stretcher Bar Kit is the ultimate museum quality solid-wood stretcher system. It's so unique, it earned us a Patent! All you need to do is select the frame size and you will receive everything you need to build a museum class Stretcher Bar Frame. We have 6105 sizes available in this and two other depths. Get Any Size You Want!
True 41:17 Custom Proportion - 17x41 Size
Consider one other size in the same 41:17 proportion:
Explore other Masterpiece® products in this exact 17x41 size:
- Stretched Acrylic Primed Cotton Canvas : Shasta™
- Stretched Acrylic Primed Linen Canvas: Grenoble™ • Pau™
- Stretched Alkyd / Oil Primed Linen Canvas: Isola™ • Poitiers™
- 3D™ K2.5 Frame Kit • 3D™ K3.5 Frame Kit
- Super strong Elite™ B2™ Stretcher Bar is 50% stronger than most others in its class
- For this 17x41 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
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.
Sustainably Managed Forests Purify the Air
Our forests purify the air by filtering nearly 40% of the fossil fuel emissions humans create, and are critical to reducing global warming. More trees are needed on this planet, not fewer, for our own healthy human survival. Therefore, we use lumber grown in responsibly managed forests, so future generations can benefit from our responsible actions today.
Specially Dried and Heat Treated Lumber
We source our wood from a select group of top-tier environmentally conscious lumber mills in the Pacific Northwest. These mills specially dry and heat-treat the lumber to our specifications, resulting in about half the moisture content compared to wood from typical home improvement centers or lumber yards. This process makes the wood stronger, reducing the likelihood of cracking, splitting, or warping. While the wood we use comes at a higher cost, it ensures a more dimensionally stable end product. This stability is crucial for crafting fine professional canvases that support your invaluable art over time.
23x47 is the Canvas Size Needed for this 17x41 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.Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner
One of our most appreciated products helps make your canvas tighter! Stretching a canvas tightly can be a challenge. Our Frame Kits include the Corner and Brace Keys that you will need to add tension, but Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Re-Tensioner is a way that you can use to add tension to the canvas without needed to use the keys. It canvas be sprayed on the back of a canvas to repair most canvas tension issues.
With Tight'n'Up™, you can add tension to just a small area, or a large area. Simply spray it lightly on the back and brush it into the canvas, and within seconds, your canvas becomes tighter and stays tighter. The more you use, the tighter it gets. Recommended for acrylic primed cotton or linen canvas. We do not recommend it for oil primed canvas because there are simply too many different types of oil primed canvas, but used conservatively at your own risk, it will tension any canvas.
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 qualityĂ‘and more importantly, so will your clients and those who acquire your art
There are only two kinds of artists: the plagiarist and the revolutionary.
♦ Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin, whose own art career was punctuated by a constant pursuit of innovation and transformation, clearly made a distinction in his view of artistry. Moving away from the traditional styles of Europe to embrace the vibrancy of Polynesian art, Gauguin himself became a beacon of revolutionary thought in the art world. His bold assertion challenges artists to truly evaluate the originality of their work and its place within the broader landscape of artistic evolution.
This dichotomy presents a choice. We can either find comfort in reproducing what's familiar and previously celebrated, or we can dare to break the mold, introducing new thoughts, techniques, and perspectives. This doesn't mean we disregard the wisdom and brilliance of past masters, but rather, we build upon it, forging a unique path. The revolutionary is not someone who rejects the past but one who interprets it in a fresh light, adding a new link to the chain of artistic legacy. In heeding Gauguin's words, we embrace the challenge of being true innovators, ensuring our contributions are genuinely groundbreaking, adding value and depth to the world of art.
As we honor the legacy of Paul Gauguin, we've created our own portrait as well as pass along these words of wisdom and our take on the message. Get to work on yours!
Additional Details
- SKU:
- B2K-1741
- Canvas and Depth:
- 1.50 In. Frame Kit
- Width:
- 17 Inch
- Length:
- 41 Inch