go to the ElectricEmperor.com home page

5. ART CANVAS

artist using hemp canvas

    “Hemp is the perfect archival medium.”7

    7. Frazier, Jack, The Marijuana Farmers, Solar Age Press, New Orleans, LA, 1974; U.S. Library of Congress; National Archives.

    The paintings of Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Rembrandt, etc., were primarily painted on hemp canvas, as were practically all canvas paintings.

    A strong, lustrous fiber, hemp withstands heat, mildew, insects, and is not damaged by light. Oil paintings on hemp and/or flax canvas have stayed in fine condition for centuries.

alternative versions of some pictures

the authorized on-line version of Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”


previous page next page
previous page intro next page