Description
26x39 Monet™ Pro • 1-1/2" Deep • Carmel™ 7oz Portrait Smooth Cotton • 3:2 Film • MC-2639
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Monet™ Pro means a 1-1/2" deep canvas that is stretched using our MuseumWrap™ back-stapled method with folded corners. Our proprietary stretching process uses pneumatically controlled machines that we built to yield drum-tight tension. See below to learn more about the finest professional quality artist canvas on the market.
Optimize Your Order for Maximum Protection
We care deeply about the safe arrival of your canvases and have designed heavy-duty, triple-strength corrugated boxes to ensure their protection. To further optimize your shipment's safety, we recommend ordering even quantities of the same size. This allows us to pack the delicate parts of the canvas face-to-face, away from the box's exterior, providing extra protection and ensuring your canvas arrives in perfect condition. Even if you order only one, we will still do everything possible to protect your valuable contents during delivery.
Welcome to our Lost Sizes collection, featuring unique and hard-to-find sizes like this 26x39 canvas in the mainstream 3:2 Film proportion. Custom-made by Masterpiece®, these sizes are designed to inspire and challenge artists of all levels.
True 3:2 Film Proportion - 26x39 Size
The 3:2 aspect ratio is a very familiar format film, computer screens, and video, and, of course, is an aesthetically appealing proportion for your artistic compositions. Most 35 mm film cameras are based on this exact proportion, so our brains are trained to see images in this same ratio. It is commonly used for landscape photography and artwork, as it allows for a wide, panoramic view of the scene. It can be used to create a sense of balance and harmony in the composition, providing depth and perspective, as the longer sides of the canvas allow for more space to depict the background or foreground elements of the scene.
Even though this proportion is widely used, there are only a handful of commonly available standard canvas sizes in this ratio. There are a whole collection of intriguing (what we call) Lost Sizes, which are uncommon sizes in this common proportion. Unusual canvas sizes add intrigue to your artwork and an additional story to tell about your painting.
Explore other sizes in this same 3:2 aspect ratio:
4x6 • 6x9 • 8x12 • 10x15 • 12x18 • 14x21 • 16x24 • 18x27 • 20x30 • 22x33 • 24x36 • 28x42 • 30x45 • 32x48 • 34x51 • 36x54 • 38x57 • 40x60 • 42x63 • 44x66 • 46x69 • 48x72 • 50x75 • 52x78 • 54x81 • 56x84 • 58x87 • 60x90 • 62x93 • 64x96
Explore Related Products to this 26x39 Size:
- Acrylic Primed Cotton: Monterey™ • Tahoe™ • Heavy Weight 14oz cotton • Sierra™ • Shasta™
- Acrylic Primed Linen: Muir™ • Vintage L22U™ • Santa Cruz™ • Saint-Cloud™ • Grenoble™ • Pau™
- Raw Unprimed Cotton: Raw No 12 • Raw No 10 • Raw No 8
- Alkyd / Oil Primed Linen: Malibu™ • Vintage L21C™ • Ventura™ • Versailles™ • Isola™ • Poitiers™
- Vincent™ Pro 7/8 • 3D™ Pro 2.5
Vegan Ground:
There are no animal products that make-up the sizing and the primer for this fine canvas. Historically, traditional canvas grounds have included egg tempura, pigments with cow urine, and of course, rabbit skin glue. In today's rapidly advancing world, there are many more choices available for artists who prefer non-animal based products that perform far better than their animal-based predecessors.
Carmel™ 7oz Portrait Smooth Cotton
Very smooth surface texture for fine detailed type work, but still has enough texture to grip the paint.
- 100% Cotton 7 oz.; Primed Weight 10.3 oz. per square yard
- Medium Weight, Medium Weave, Portrait Smooth Texture
- Sized and Double Primed with acid-free archival quality acrylic gesso
- Impenetrable ground prevents oil paint from leaching through and harming the canvas
- For acrylics, oils, alkyds, and water miscible oil paints
Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Primer Pigment
This primer contains premium-grade Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) white pigment, renowned for its exceptional performance in acrylic priming. Its standout feature is its enduring whiteness, coupled with remarkable flexibility that persists over time. In contrast to other pigments such as zinc dioxide, Titanium Dioxide maintains its resilience, preventing brittleness as it ages. This quality ensures that artworks retain their integrity and will stand the test of time.
Monet™ Pro 1.5" Deep Bar • 1/2" Canvas Clearance
1/2" Canvas Clearance 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.
- Produces a 1.5" deep stretched canvas canvas (Actual depth is slightly thinner)
- 1-5/8" wide Stretcher Bar
- Frames with a dimension of 20" and up have a groove machined in the center inside perimeter to which cross braces attach
- Solid Ponderosa Pine or Fir from the Pacific Northwest
Finger Jointed Wood is not meant for Stretcher Bars
Solid wood makes the most dependable Stretcher Bar, because one homogeneous wood member is going to behave similarly across the entire length of the Bar. Whereas, with finger-jointed wood is made-up of multiple pieces of wood, sometimes on the actual joint itself, presenting multiple points of failure which no one can control.
We only use Solid Wood to build our Stretcher Bars because a solid piece of wood will last indefinitely. When we speak of archival value, it's not just the paint you use and the quality of your canvas and ground, even the wood choices manufacturers add or reduce value to your final painting. The fact is, you don't want problems, and finger joints only increase that risk of the wood falling apart in the future.
The glue used to bind finger joints is a water based adhesive and when that wood is exposed to high humidity environments, particularly with exterior walls, the glue joints can give-up. 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.
26x39 Monet Pro Frame Kit Extra Heavy Frame Provides Superior Support
- Photo displays the exact frame construction, not the proportion
- Precision machined heavy duty keyable tongue-and-groove Stretcher Bars
- Two super strong 3/4" thick keyable cross braces (3.25" wide) provide the maximum possible support for this 26x39 frame - Cross Braces may be removed and reinserted at any time
- An exclusive slot is milled on the inside perimeter of all of the Stretcher Bars to which the Braces and the expansion wedges attach
- Patented keyable cross braces allow the frame to be tensioned in the middle of the canvas, where the tension needed the most
- Cross braces firmly attached with hardware at the intersection point for maximum support and rigidity
- To increase canvas tension: 1) remove any staples in the corners and those that retain the brace keys in the middle, 2) tap all of the expansion keys further into their respective slots, 3) tighten and re-staple the canvas in the corners
Canvas Tension is in Your Control
In dry climates or air conditioned environments, the lack of moisture in the air causes wood frames to shrink and the canvas fibers to narrow and elongate making the canvas more slack and resulting in a loss of canvas tension. In some instances, the canvas could have waves on the surface resulting in an unsightly viewing experience.
Our Monet™ Pro professional frames provide the functionality for you to slightly expand the size of the frame in the corners and the middle of the canvas, thereby increasing canvas tension all across the surface. The difference between a loose canvas and a tight canvas is just 1/8" of an inch, so a small adjustment using our corner and brace keys makes an important difference in canvas tension.
- Helps to prevent waves that occur in a loose canvas
- Increase canvas tension by tapping-in the corner and brace keys
- True professional class canvases make it possible for you to adjust the canvas tension
Cross Braces Make it Tighter
A tightly stretched canvas on an un-braced frame overpowers the Stretcher Bars causing them to bow inward and thereby lose tension. Sometimes that bow can expose a space in picture frames.
When a canvas is stretched on a properly supported frame, the cross-braces prevent the Bars from bowing thereby achieving maximum canvas tension. To increase the canvas tension even more, simply tap the corner and brace keys further in their slots. Properly supported frames provide you with the control over the canvas tension of your canvas and painting.
Selective Harvesting in our Sustainable Forests
Intelligent selective harvesting of timber is an ecological method to replace the natural occurrences of forest fires and disease and landslides that can devastate forests. This is all part of the process of sustainable forest management to which we subscribe when we choose which lumber we use in our products.
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.
MuseumWrap™ Stretching Technique
With more than a half a century of American engineering, Masterpiece® designs and builds its own proprietary stretching equipment that enables us to produce the finest and most tightly-stretched canvas on the market.
- Drum-tight stretch!
- Up to 50% tighter than other methods
- Balanced tension across the surface
- Uncut folded corners make it possible to remove and re-stretch canvas on the same size frame
- Usually the corner folds are on the long sides
Every artist's journey to greatness starts with a blank canvas. Since 1965, Masterpiece® has been the trusted companion in that journey, offering the finest canvases in North America. Your creativity, combined with our canvas, has the potential to turn into a priceless treasure. The choices you make today pave the way for tomorrow's legacy.
In every brushstroke, there is the heart of a woman who refuses to be silenced. (Inspired by the life and experience of Artemisia; not an actual quote.).
♦ Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi, a formidable figure in the Baroque art movement, faced trials and tribulations that would have broken many. Yet, her resilience and determination only served to fuel her artistic passions. Born in a time when women artists were rarely recognized, Artemisia confronted not just the biases of a male-dominated art world, but also personal traumas that marked her early life. Despite the challenges she encountered, her paintings displayed an intensity and emotional depth that was unparalleled.
When we, as artists, approach our work, it's essential to remember the legacy of individuals like Artemisia, who used art as a powerful medium of expression and resistance. Her canvases became the battlegrounds where she could voice her experiences, her pains, and her triumphs. Through the mastery of her craft, she conveyed not just her personal stories, but also became an emblematic voice for many women who sought to be heard. Thus, for artists today, each brushstroke is not merely an act of painting; it's an act of reaffirming our identities, our experiences, and our place in history.
Creativity is a dance between inspiration and innovation. Our own self portrait creation of Artemisia Gentileschi twirls alongside these profound words, hoping to set the stage for your next artistic performance. Now go do your dance on the canvas!
Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner
While all of our Masterpiece® Pro canvases are stretched very tightly and our frames have a built-in method to increase tension, we have another method to add canvas tension. Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner (sold separately) can 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.
Additional Details
- SKU:
- MC-2639
- Canvas and Depth:
- 1.50 in. Monet Pro
- Weight and Style:
- 10.3oz Carmel Smooth A/P
- Canvas and Ground:
- Cotton Acrylic Primed Vegan
- Tooth and Texture:
- Portrait Smooth
- Width:
- 26 Inch
- Length:
- 39 Inch
- Aspect Ratio:
- 3:2 Film