predecessor bocour artist colors unofficially founded 1980 founder sam golden headquarters new berlin new york key people adele mark and barbara golden and partner chuck kelly products artist materials website official website golden artist colors or simply golden is a manufacturing company that focuses almost entirely on paints used in fine art decoration and crafts . based in new berlin new york the company produces the largest line of acrylic colors that is currently available to artists citation needed including recreations of historic pigments . golden also manufactures and distributes the williamsburg line of handmade artists oil paints and the proceeed professional decorative painting system a line of acrylic paints and mediums for architectural painting . golden artist colors has collaborated with artists on significant mural projects including the michlalah murals in jerusalem by archie rand venus by knox martin and indoor murals by frank stella and roy lichtenstein . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 acrylic paints 2.1.1 open acrylic colors and mediums 2.2 handmade oil colors 2.3 qor watercolors 2.4 mediums and gels 2.5 gessoes and grounds 2.6 varnishes 2.7 customized products 3 references 4 external links history edit during the 1930s sam golden joined his uncle leonard bocour forming a partnership in the paint company bocour artist colors . they produced hand ground oil colors for artists and they called their oil paint tubes and jars bellini . their store in manhattan became a hangout for artists through the early 1950s . artists such as barnett newman mark rothko willem de kooning jackson pollock helen frankenthaler knox martin 2 and jack levine would get paint there and visit with golden and bocour also a painter . between 1946 and 1949 and after a process of experimentation the first artist acrylic paint was ready for sale it was mineral spirit and turpentine soluble called magna . one of the first artists to use magna paint was morris louis . eventually bocour artist colors developed a water soluble version of acrylic paint called aquatec . in june 1980 ten years after sam golden retired from the bocour artist colors company he founded golden artist colors inc. with his wife adele son mark daughter in law barbara golden and partner chuck kelly . they began making paint in a 900 square foot 84 m2 renovated barn in upstate new york . the company received many awards including the 1991 business arts award by the chenango county chamber of commerce and the council of the arts . mark golden received the 1996 small business person of the year from the us small business administration golden artist colors was featured on the nbc nightly news as a successful small business . in 1998 mark golden was selected by fortune magazine to appear in its video series on small business . when sam golden died at age 82 in 1997 he left behind a long legacy of participation in the creative process of artists and their materials . the golden company added 31 000 square feet 2 900 m2 to its manufacturing facility in 1997 and took down the old barn replacing it with state of the art technical laboratories and paint manufacturing equipment . the company laboratories are actively developing new innovations to make their acrylic paint increasingly durable and sophisticated . citation needed in the 21st century they developed new colors new mediums new slow drying paints and high chroma fluid products . products edit acrylic paints edit a selection of golden artist colors products . golden manufactures the largest range of colors currently available for artists . most of its acrylic paints are available in heavy body and fluid mixtures . a variety of mediums are available to alter the viscosity drying time sheen and other material properties of the paint . heavy body paints are high viscosity and mimic the consistency of oil paints . fluid paints are liquid but maintain an extremely high pigment load . open acrylic paints were presented in 2007 as a way to mimic oil techniques with acrylics . high flow acrylic paints replaced airbrush colors in july 2013 . 3 thus as of 2015 golden offered four different color formulations for its acrylic paints as well as different mediums and grounds . with the release of the high flow acrylic line golden encouraged its use in different sized markers by offering empty markers as a set . 4 open acrylic colors and mediums edit in 2007 golden began marketing a line of newly developed acrylic paints called the open acrylic painting system . these specially formulated paints have increased drying and working time . the system is intended to give acrylic painters access to the wet in wet painting techniques of oil painters . while open colors and mediums dry slowly they still dry far more quickly than traditional oil paints and mediums . citation needed handmade oil colors edit on may 21 2010 golden artist colors inc. acquired williamsburg oil colors relocating the staff and paint making equipment from east meredith new york to the golden facility in new berlin . according to mark golden there was no question that eventually we would make oil colors here . in fact for over 20 years we have been making custom oil paints for artists requiring unique colors or materials . citation needed qor watercolors edit in april 2014 golden announced a line of modern watercolors that use a special binder of aquazol something previously used in conservation . the paints would begin to be sold in may . the technical acronym qor means quality of results . when using related grounds and mediums released by the company the new paint line is said to offer benefits like maintaining color when dry and having a higher density of color . 5 6 initially offering 83 colors and four different color sets 5 the price for the smaller 11 ml tubes of paint was more than for 15 ml of paint from other brands . in july 2014 qor synthetic ox gall was recalled for safety reasons because of an excess of a preservative . 7 by october 2014 the line had expanded to 91 colors . 8 mediums and gels edit the company offers a number of mediums glazes gels and additives with properties that affect the acrylic when they are mixed . the pigment load can be reduced or the final gloss can be more matte or more glossy . gessoes and grounds edit golden gessoes and grounds provide sizing and surface options for acrylic and oil painters . acrylic gesso is produced in high load black and white versions . golden also produces grounds for pastel and silverpoint drawing and an absorbent acrylic ground for watercolor painting and staining effects . varnishes edit golden produces two lines of final picture varnishes polymer varnishes with ultraviolet light blocking properties are made for use with acrylic paints ; mineral spirit acrylic msa varnishes are made for use with both acrylic and oil paints . customized products edit in addition to its regular line of artists materials golden also produces custom products for painters some of which become available to the general public . these currently include extra high pigment load high load acrylic paints paste paints a variety of specialized mediums and additives stop out varnish for etching hard msa varnish and mineral spirit borne acrylic colors for conservators . references edit mural paints current and future formulations by mark golden 2003 the getty conservation institute 1 just paint newsletter 27 golden artist colors inc. high flow . www.goldenpaints.com . retrieved 2015 10 19 . golden artist colors inc. golden professional high flow acrylics marker set 959 . www.goldenpaints.com . retrieved 2015 11 23 . a b golden artist colors inc. . www.goldenpaints.com . retrieved 2015 11 23 . qor watercolor about us . www.qorcolors.com . retrieved 2015 11 23 . qor watercolor product safety recall qor synthetic ox gall . www.qorcolors.com . retrieved 2015 11 23 . ward peter 2014 10 03 . the watercolour log new watercolours from golden . the watercolour log . retrieved 2015 11 23 . external links edit golden artist colors official website proceed system decorative paints by golden artist colors 2 golden purchases williamsburg oils sam & adele golden foundation for the arts sam & adele golden gallery at golden artist colors just paint website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title golden artist colors & oldid 733667291 categories manufacturing companies based in new yorkamerican brandsart materials brandspaint manufacturerscompanies established in 1980artists acrylic paint brandscompanies based in new yorkhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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