From the R. Crumb Facebook page:
Crumb originally drew the 12 panels of A Short History of America in 1979. He created 3 additional panels of three different future scenarios for the Kitchen Sink serigraph in 1994. This version, with the three additional panels, became known as the 15 panel edition. Crumbproducts.com (or rcrumb.com, same site) created a 500 print unsigned giclée edition based upon that 15 panel serigraph edition (with some color changes) in 2018, and it sold out several years later. But we’re constantly besieged by requests for this image by many Crumb fans almost on a daily basis.
Robert and Alex came up with the idea to modify the art slightly by adding clouds thereby creating a different sky in each panel, instead of the blue sky which remains constant throughout all the previous editions. So Alex enlarged each panel, printed them and sent them to Robert in France. Crumb used gouache and water colors to paint over the sky and sent them back to Alex who then placed the new artwork behind the existing landscapes using Photoshop. The result is this new and very beautiful 15 panel giclée edition of one of Crumb’s most famous pieces – A Short History of America (15 panel Cloud version).
The white Somerset archival paper is 24 by 21.5 inches. The image size is 19 by 17 inches. There are 600 unsigned, hand-numbered prints in this edition, with 40 signed artist proofs and 3 signed printer proofs. We do NOT have any of Robert’s artist proofs to sell! The printer proofs are also not available because they’re not signed yet. Prints will be mailed in a 4 inch tube via USPS around the world. Release date is Monday, June 30th (https://crumbproducts.com/.../short-history-of-america-15...)
Robert estimated the time each panel depicts:
Panel
#1–Before Whitey; Panel #2–1860's; Panel #3–1870's; Panel #4–1880's;
Panel #5–1890's; Panel #6–1900's; Panel #7–1910's; Panel #8–1920's;
Panel #9–early 1930's; Panel #10-1940's; Panel #11–1950's; Panel
#12-late 1970's.
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