The Finest Materials for Enduring Beauty

Inorganic Pigments: 

Advances in synthetic organic chemistry, over the last 100 years, have produced a dazzling array of colored pigments from which contemporary artists may choose.   

Unfortunately, these widely-used pigments are prone to decay, as is all organic matter.  While “permanent” in the casual sense of the word; they cannot compete with traditional inorganic pigments (those obtained from semi-precious stones, bone, and oxidized metals) in color fastness or lasting beauty.  Master painters have used inorganic pigments suspended in walnut oil to create oil on canvas paintings for over a millennium.  Virtually all extant works, produced before AD 1900, contain inorganic pigments.  Unlike most of his peers, Mr. Kohler exclusively uses time-tested, traditional pigments.

An Example Comparing Two, 500 Year-old Works of Art

         Faded Organic Pigments                    Vivid Inorganic Pigments

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid              Judgment of King Cambyses

van Vianen                                                                  David: Gerard op.1484-1523

Bernard van Orley, op. 1488  - 1542                                 Oil on canvas painting, 1498

Watercolor and vegetable ink tapestry, 1530-35

Archival Canvas:

Each Kohler painting rests upon archival grade, double titanium primed, natural, acid-free cotton duck canvas which has been secured to hard-wood stretcher bars following American Association of Museums guidelines with adherence to strict deontological principles. 

Museum Quality Frames:

Each painting is displayed in a beaufort Larson-Juhl frame.

Hand carved frames may be commissioned separately.  Click here to inquire.