Samper Silk Screen Serigraphs Collection

The Samper Silk Screen Serigraphs Collection features original fine-art serigraph prints connected to Samper Silk Screen, one of the premier Los Angeles screen printing ateliers of its era.

Founded by Santiago Samper in the late 1950s, Samper Silk Screen built its reputation through exceptional color work, precise registration, and high-level print craftsmanship. This was not ordinary poster production. Samper operated in the world of serious fine-art screen printing, producing work for artists, publishers, galleries, and major creative clients who required depth, consistency, and finish.

This collection includes a wide range of original serigraphs from a long-held private archive, with works identified in the collection notes by artists including Yvette Sturgis, Sudi McCollum, Cynthia Stern, Alberto Moreno, John L. Eastman, Will Horner, Helen Hydo/Hugo, Tim Biskup, Steven Sugarman, and others. Additional pieces remain unattributed or are still being researched.

Serigraphy is a true fine-art screen printing process. Unlike modern digital reproductions, litho posters, or giclée prints, a serigraph is built color by color, screen by screen. Ink is physically pushed through a prepared mesh stencil onto the paper, with each color requiring its own screen, alignment, and pass.

When executed by a studio of Samper’s caliber, the result is a print with bold saturation, layered depth, and a physical surface presence that flat reproductions often cannot match.

The collection includes multiple artists, subjects, sizes, and styles — from florals and abstract compositions to figurative works, cultural imagery, wildlife, and contemporary graphic pieces. Each print is being reviewed, photographed, and listed individually as it becomes available.