During the search for the original artwork used for A Love Supreme, VMP’s creative team contacted the estate of Victor Kalin for an archival image of the gatefold illustration. Offhandedly, VMP’s art director, Clay Conder mentioned always wanting a print of that artwork ever since meeting the album long ago. That’s all it took.

VMP contacted Canadian artist, Jason Edmiston, to break down the archival image for screen printing. Celebrated as a painter, Edmiston rewrote the book on the creation of painterly serigraphy causing a minor revolution in the medium.  

During the search for the original artwork used for A Love Supreme, VMP’s creative team contacted the estate of Victor Kalin for an archival image of the gatefold illustration. Offhandedly, VMP’s art director, Clay Conder mentioned always wanting a print of that artwork ever since meeting the album long ago. That’s all it took.

VMP contacted Canadian artist, Jason Edmiston, to break down the archival image for screen printing. Celebrated as a painter, Edmiston rewrote the book on the creation of painterly serigraphy causing a minor revolution in the medium.  

During the search for the original artwork used for A Love Supreme, VMP’s creative team contacted the estate of Victor Kalin for an archival image of the gatefold illustration. Offhandedly, VMP’s art director, Clay Conder mentioned always wanting a print of that artwork ever since meeting the album long ago. That’s all it took.

VMP contacted Canadian artist, Jason Edmiston, to break down the archival image for screen printing. Celebrated as a painter, Edmiston rewrote the book on the creation of painterly serigraphy causing a minor revolution in the medium.  

Printed by internationally renowned print shop, DL Screenprinting, in Seattle Washington on 100 lb premium white paper from the French Paper Company in Niles, Michigan. Strictly available in conjunction with the Kalin & Coltrane estate for seven days. At the end of the seven days, the offer is closed 

Details:

Height - 36"

Width - 24"

Printer - DL Screenprinting in Seattle, Washington

Print type - Serigraph on 100lb premium paper

Print Window - 7 days (2/14/24 - 2/21/24)

About the artist: 

Starting his career drawing elegant women for major magazines and cowboys for pulp fiction in the pre-photography age, artist Victor “Vic” Kalin illustrated more than 100 album covers in the 1960s and ’70s for greats ranging from Count Basie to Charles Mingus. His most iconic work wasn’t a cover, but rather  the gatefold of A Love Supreme. His charged kinetic charcoal profile of John Coltrane wrestling his tenor saxophone eventually appeared on Coltrane’s funeral program as the enduring icon of an enduring inspirational talent. Press pass in hand, Kalin also frequented festivals and concerts with his camera to snap musicians, including Coltrane, live for jazz magazines and books. He developed and processed his black-and-white film with effects like distortion or double exposure — handmade expressions much like his illustrations. Remembered as a bon vivant and creative polymath, Kalin left a prolific, colorful portfolio of culture before passing away in 1991.