Description
23x92 Elite™ Professional B2 Frame Kit • 1-1/2" Deep • 4:1 Super Panorama • B2K-2392
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 4:1 Super Panorama Proportion - 23x92 Size
This dramatic 23x92 size is in the 4:1 Aspect Ratio.
The 4:1 Super Panorama proportion has gained interest with a lot of artists, providing even a more dramatic and eye-catching compositional format. The unusual proportion provides the artist with a unique perspective with which to tell their story on canvas. This proportion is called a "polyomino proportion on the order of 4", or a linear tetromino object.
Explore other sizes in this same 4:1 aspect ratio:
11x44 • 12x48 • 13x52 • 14x56 • 15x60 • 16x64 • 17x68 • 18x72 • 19x76 • 20x80 • 21x84 • 22x88 • 24x96 • 25x100 • 26x104 • 27x108 • 28x112 • 29x116 • 30x120
Explore other Masterpiece® products in this exact 23x92 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 23x92 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.
Sustainable Forests Ensure More Wood for Communities
Using lumber from sustainably managed forests is not only the responsible thing to do, it's also a way to ensure that the wood products we rely on continue to be available in the future. By supporting sustainable forestry practices, we can help to ensure a steady supply of wood products while also protecting the environment and supporting local communities.
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.
29x98 is the Canvas Size Needed for this 23x92 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.
Rooted in California and flourishing since 1965, Masterpiece® takes pride in its family-led legacy of crafting North America's premier Stretcher Bars. Our quest for excellence isn't just a goal but a commitment, positioning us as the trailblazers in the domain of fine-art canvas. Our innovative patents have set new benchmarks, ensuring our offerings stand unmatched. Dive into the tactile experience of our products, and you'll instantly recognize the distinct Masterpiece® quality, a signature appreciated by both your clientele and future art connoisseurs.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
♦ Anatole France
Anatole France, the Nobel laureate and witty French writer of the late 19th and early 20th century, had a knack for capturing profound truths with a sprinkle of humor and elegance. Born Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault, he adopted his pen name and quickly rose to fame with works that often reflected his skeptical and ironic approach to life. Now, isn't it amusing that a man so curious about life's quirks and inconsistencies would highlight curiosity as mankind's pinnacle virtue? For artists, this sentiment is especially resonant. It's that insatiable curiosity that drives us to pick up the brush, mold the clay, or sketch the world as we see it. Every stroke, shade, and texture is a testament to our quest to understand, interpret, and reimagine the universe around us.
When the canvas stares back at us, blank and intimidating, it's our inherent curiosity that prods us to splash it with color and meaning. Akin to France's own journey through the pages of his books, exploring realms of satire, society, and the human psyche, artists embark on adventures with every piece they create. We dare to ask the questions others might shy away from, to explore uncharted territories of emotion and expression. Anatole France might jest about our ceaseless inquisitiveness, but deep down, he knew that without it, the world would be void of the magic we bring. It's our insatiable curiosity that eventually leads us to our next masterpiece!
Draw inspiration from the words of wisdom by Anatole France, plus our interpretation of its meaning, along with our own rendered portrait of Anatole France. Now get busy on your own canvas!
Additional Details
- SKU:
- B2K-2392
- Canvas and Depth:
- 1.50 In. Frame Kit
- Width:
- 23 Inch
- Length:
- 92 Inch