Canvas or Framed Print? How to Choose for Your Wall

Every signed giclée print on this site comes two ways, and it's the one choice on each piece's page that changes how it will look on your wall. Here's the difference, side by side.

Framed

Canvas

What you get with a framed print

• A 2½-inch moulding in one of three finishes: Ivory Wash, Dove Grey or Warm Silver.
• A white textured liner inside the frame: 1 inch on the small size, 2 inches on the medium and large.
• No glass. The print is varnished instead, so nothing reflects the window across the room.
• Wired and ready to hang.

A frame makes a piece feel finished and a little more formal. It also adds width, so a framed print takes up more of the wall than the same size on canvas.

What you get with a canvas

The print is stretched over a wooden frame and wrapped around the edges, so the picture continues around the sides, and it hangs without a frame at all. It's lighter on the wall and a touch more modern, and it suits a room that already has plenty going on.

Which one suits your room?

Choose framed if

• the room is more traditional, or the piece hangs with other framed art;
• you want the piece to look finished on a large, plain wall;
• you like the contrast of a white liner around a colorful piece.

Choose canvas if

• the room is relaxed and modern, or the wall is busy already;
• you're hanging a group and want the pieces to read as one;
• you'd like to spend a little less.

See how the prints are made

Every print starts as a high-resolution scan of the original collage, printed with archival pigment inks and color-matched by eye. Here's the work behind one of them.

Every piece page shows the framed and canvas versions to scale, in each size. For a question about your wall, send Jennifer a note.