I have no images that he created throug hthe silk screen process which he learned and used commercially in the late 1940’s.  The above image is handpainted silk, put in for interest only.   This medium is a tedious complicated one. The basic idea is to take a large piece of acetate and layout the image that is to be created. The major advantage of the process is that after the silk screen is finished, a person can produce hundreds or thousands of copies of the image with minimal effort. The drawback is that a silk screen cannot be modified. One must produce a separate screen for each image.
         After the image has been laid out on the acetate with pencil, the image is carefully outlined with a sharp blade, and then removed from the sheet. This leaves a silhouette - which is what it really is. The artist then lays the acetate sheet carefully over the silk which has been properly stretched on a heavy duty frame which is hinged to a working surface where the screening will be done.
         After the acetate silhouette is secured in place over the sild, Acetone is then floated uniformly over the acetate.  The acetone “melts” the acetate which basically settles onto and into the fibers of the silk.  After the acetone evaporates, the acetate has become an intergral part of the silk, leaving a silhouette. 
         To produce an image, a piece of paper, fabric or whatever one wants to screen, underneath the heavy frame which holds the silk silhouette. The frame is then fastened securely so that it cannot move during the printing process. Paint or dye is then spread in a half-inch wide strip from side to side at one end of the screen.  Then a squilgee is placed tightly against that end of the frame, and pulled across the silhouette, pressing uniformly so that a uniform layer of paint will be squeezed through the silhouette onto the paper.
         The squilgee is set aside safely, the frame is released and carefully lifted without any lateral movement that would smudge or smear the print which is then removed from the bed and set aside to dry. This process can be done as many times as desired, the only difference being that the squilgee will be pulled in the other direction across the screen.
         The cleanup process is critical. If any bits of paint are left in the silk fabric, it will obviously dry. Then in the next image, thos bits of dried paint will act as a resist, creating bare spots in the image.
           Sophisticated silk screening involves a number of different frames, each varying slightly, each being used to lay down a different color. I beleive that Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell soup cans in single colors were probably done by silk screen. 

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