Bleich Archive of Collectors Prints

Unique Master Touch Limited Editions.
Only 150 of each edition will be Master Touched!
An Excellent Value -- $700 to $800 framed cost includes
Gold Leaf frame that will add 7 inches to total size.
An example of the frame is found at the end of this print archive.
Generous Equity Program for Print Collectors. 50% of the current cost becomes a credit towards originals without trading them in. As they go up in value, so does your equity.

Bleich Master Touch prints are first transferred to canvas and coated with an ultraviolet protection film. The artist himself, George J. Bleich, will do the extensive impasto painting on the canvas. As a discipline, he will build up color and texture creatively, endeavoring to make each one unique and more attractive than the one before. He regards each one as a work of art and invests much time and thought in its creation. Bleich Master Touch prints are further enhanced on the back with Bleich's poems and paintings inscribed by the artist. His latest prints have been published in editions of 750 with 50 artist proofs. The Master Touch works by the artist will be limited to 150 of each edition. There is a difference and more art integrity and future valiue when the artist himself does the work!

Master Touch Serial Paintings

I have 6 available Master Touches. They will not be a priority in the future. They will be available on customized order only.

It is not uncommon for me to put more days of efforts in these Serial paintings, Than I do for far larger paintings. They are painted over my prints but are quite different. They are extensive discipline exercises for me in solving color and harmonic problems, while I was recuperating from health problems created by improper care at a local hospital, CHOMP. They provided me with a distraction from pain and allowed me to travel vicariously and revisit places I loved but was not able to go to. They had art work on the front and back and were in keeping with my giving nature. My original intent was to provide the equivalent of originals for young couples getting started who really loved my work at a price they could afford.

I did my Honey Moon Commission Paintings at half the regular cost for the same reasons. I enjoyed the romantic spirit of doing them so much that I started doing them for others whose love bonded them together and grew stronger over the years. I have enjoyed singing my Evergreen Tree in my Gallery for lovers and honeymooner alike. I sang it free at two weddings at Carmel Beach, and At my son’s Christopher’s wedding to Marina in Hawaii. If only their love could last as long as a couple I sang it to who were married 75 years. The charming gentleman pointed over to his smiling wife and said’” I robbed the cradle over here George.” I smiled and answered “ You could not of been too far out of the cradle yourself sir.

I am making a diligent effort to get back in the best possible shape for a 72 year old sea dog and look forward to once again responding to unique and exotic areas for inspiration, starting paintings through out the world and writing a few songs along the way.

Last year when I acquired MRSA drug resistant Staph I did not know whether I would survive as I was wracked with pain, weak and had slowly spreading skin eruptions that started at the new painful wound sites on my legs, spread over much of my body. I had chest pains and at times would come close to passing out upon standing. That virulent form of drug resistant staph killed more people than AIDS in America last year. It is spread primarily through hospitals. CHOMP runs a TV ad, Health Care with a Human Touch. I wish that human washed her hands before she touched me after attending to leg wounds on another patient that were horrid.

When you go through what I have been through it changes one’s mind set. It is time to complete creative projects of your choosing. If you do not do it now, you may not be around to do it later.

My priority and focus will be directed at completing a major work, a 5 by 12 foot triptych of Giverny. I had over 20 years of enjoying working on it until becoming a caregiver for years, for my mom until she passed away at 99. Then my own health problem set in.

In the past, I’ve had a book publisher talk to me about doing a book on my life and work. I told him ,”It wasn’t time yet. There will be more important paintings that I will create, more adventures to experience. I now feel that some of my spiritual contemplation's and reflections on life and art should be shared along with my paintings poems and songs. If I am fortunate I will find a compatible professional writer to work together on a biographical sketch of my life. I would like it to include CDs of my songs, spoken poems and statements. Somewhat like Dylan Thomas’s actual voice giving life, emotional depth and power to “ Do not go quietly into that good night.” With a smile on my face, I just entertained a title for the book, “Wisdom of a Creative Child”. I joke about the nice thing about being an artist is, we are child like by nature and can slip into senility and not a soul would know the difference.

I have a child like relationship with God, the trust and uncompromising love of a child for his Father. In relationship to eternity we all are His children and should love and care for each other. Intellectualizing Religion can become a cloak of vanity that separate individuals from living their Religion. They become intolerant of minor differences of other Christian’s form of worship even more so of other Religions. I have met Atheists who were more moral, kind and giving than some believers. Let us regard people by their action and inaction.

I truly enjoy open ecumenical conversations where mutual respect of individuals who love God is present. As a peace loving Christian of Catholic denomination, I personally feel for me, the teachings of Christ in the New Testament are a priority and bear more direction on how we should live our lives. One can find Good God Loving individuals in other Religions. One can find people who are misusing Religion in every Religion. In conversation with individuals who will use a historical quote by a some lesser individual in the Old Testament to justify war will lead me ask them, what is more important, The Ten Commandments that God gave Moses or a historical quote. There are lessons in the old Testament to learned from other’s mistakes. Than again the rejection of Christ and his crucifixion seem to reflect an error on the part of some of the chosen people. Not all rejected him as the majority of Christ’s followers were like Christ himself, Jewish. I am sure Religion’s intellectuals will dice up my prior statement, but than again I am just a child expressing a child’s feelings.

You may wonder what this has to do with these Master touch works, well painting is just another way I humbly pray, realizing I am not the creator but a humble vehicle of creation .My intentions I pray for are for Love not hate, for Tolerance not intolerance and for Grace to live my life in a way that would be pleasing to God.

I can understand why St. Francis made the decision to live in prayer, piety and seclusion, To commune with God directly with the forest as his cathedral, and the creatures of nature as his flock. My Son Chris once told me He was more aware of the presence of God when he was on his surfboard surrounded by the sea.

If you can bring yourself to believe as I do, that God is everywhere, in every thing and in everybody, you will change as I have changed. Anger and fear will leave you to be replaced by forgiveness and love and you will reach out to others with care and kindness. May God be with you and you with God.

These are extraordinary values as half of whatever the current cost is a credit towards Bleich originals without trading them in. Mr Bleich treats the front of each work as serial painting, so they are all unique and different. He feels that the extra effort he puts into each one becomes a growth experience for himself, exploring the wonders of color and harmony. This lifts them above the morass of comercial prints and qualifies them as works of art.

Example of the original paintings on the back of Mastertouches

All have the inscription at the top, "For someone special" and Bleich personalizes it for you with the names of your choice. The back of each Mastertouch will have a Bleich painting on it, and a Bleich acrostic poem.

Carmel by the sea,
Amid mountains and sea meadows,
Revered for it beauty,
Move slow oh hands of time
Evergreen and always lovely as
Love and sea land entwines.

Sundowm at Cypress Point
Undulating with life and love
Never sameness always more beautiful when Shared.

On Return to Heaven Gate and Enchantment You have your choice of the Iris or Rose or both Any of the floweres can be done in your choice of color

On St Remy dawn , an acrostic poem Dawn plus a sunflower or a neoimpressionist painting sketch

This is on the back of the available Chateau. This one is on museum foam board not canvas.

You may pick out one of Yosemite Water falls and I will paint that on the back approximately 16 by 20 inches

"The beautiful Yosemite original painting on the back of this canvas. is a gift of the joy of creation, The joy is in the journey and the journey is for sharing."

There are some people who purchase my work as investments, as a commodity, I appreciate their patronage. Some day their childrens children will reap the reward of their investment in my art.

There are other people who purchase my art out of love for the serene beauty, restful harmony and truth I bring into my work. They have to juggle their budget to make the $ 50 monthly payments after the $100 down to enjoy my master touch works of art. For these people I go out of my way time and effort wise to do more for them. Many times I will have more time on the front of one of my master touch works than I will have on some of my originals. There are too many takers in this world. I want to be a giver!

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"St. Remy Morn," Provence
22 x 30 canvas-- $800 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP (Varnished Impressionist Print) -- $65

"St. Remy Morn" portrays my love of Provence. A different intensity of creative energy surges through my mind's eye onto canvases started in the South of France. That demanding sense of intense color and brightness that compelled Van Gogh to respond so magnificently in the past still lives on in Provence. The area around St. Paul de Mausole in St. Remy will always be my special retreat to explore the soul of creativity. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see a larger image.

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"Chateau Azay le Rideau," Loire Valley
20 x 24 canvas-- $700 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP -- $65

"Chateau Azay le Rideau" actually resulted from a search for a special place I did not find. In life one often finds new discoveries along the path, rendering the original quest no longer relevant. The mirrored beauty in this work calls for you to reflect on the shimmering images of life and love, the here and now. May you grasp the beauty and love of the present swirling on the deep surface of the past. Click on the thumbnail at the right to see a larger image.

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"Morning on the Seine," Bennecourt
18 x 24 canvas -- $700 framed

I had a harrowing experience while painting The River Seine in Jeufosse from a railroad gravel bed. Without an audible warning, a high speed French Train passed within four feet of me. I survived the experience but was in dire need of a safe haven. That need was answered by my discovery of Bennecourt's gentle beauty on a Morning on the Seine. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see a larger image.

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"The Secret of The Rose," Monet's Pond
20 x 24 -canvas- $700 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP -- $65

"The Secret of the Rose" was an effort on my part to charge this painting with positive energy to brighten the life of the terminally ill woman who commissioned the work. It has remained a labor of love to provide a measure of happiness to those with emotional needs. Click on the thumbnail at the right to see a larger image.

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"Enchantment," Monet's Pond
22 x 28 canvas-- $800 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP -- $65

"Enchantment" was given its name by a child who said, "It looks like an enchanted land." The Gardens of Giverny is one of Monet's greatest living works of art. The many wonderful experiences of painting there over the years and sharing its peace and serenity with my wife will forever color with the warmth of human experience any work I do of Giverny. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see a larger image.

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"Fall in Giverny," Monet's Pond
18 x 24 canvas -- $700 framed

"Fall in Giverny" was started on the same trip that original concept studies inspired the start of my Homage to Monet. This 12 x 5 foot triptych has been in progress for over a decade. Upon completion of arrangements, it will be made ready for a traveling exhibition of this major work and studies for the piece. Then I will give it to a museum where it can be shared by all. Click on the thumbnail at the right to see a larger image.

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"California Wildflowers," Monterey
18 x 24 canvas -- $700 framed

"California Wildflowers," started on the road to Salinas, reflects my love of Nature and sense of life and hope that I find in nature. I find true joy in searching for and painting wildflowers as they relate to their total environment in all terrains. From mountain meadows to rugged coastlines, these beautiful live notes of color sing out in perfect harmony, with positive energy tended by the hand of God, waiting to be captured on canvas by a painter of the great outdoors. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see a larger image.

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"Point Lobos," Carmel
22 x 28 canvas -- $800 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP -- $65

Point Lobos represents a realization of a dream. When I first came to Carmel in the sixties, I rented a home on property that had a private entrance to Point Lobo's Gibson Beach. To this day I revel in painting its beauty and strength. A gift of this image was approved by Cap Weinburger for the world leaders and all involved in a Major NATO Conference in Monterey. This gift was in memory of my father who was missing in action in the North Atlantic in World War II. Special ones were prepared for President Reagan and General Colin Powell. Click on the thumbnail at the right to see a larger image.

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"Sundown At Cypress Point," Pebble Beach
22 x 30 canvas -- $800 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP -- $65

The natural cove between Cypress Point and Bird rock is unique in the world for its natural beauty. Family and friends have shared this splendid stretch of coast at all times of day and in all kinds of weather. "George's Cove," has been special to me. From 1968 to the present, it has been a source of inspiration and a place to create beautiful paintings and pleasurable memories. May you ,too, raise your wine glasses in an adieu toast to the sun while it casts its magical spell over Cypress Point. Sundown at Cypress point, undulating with life and love, never sameness, always more beautiful when shared. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see a larger image.

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"Beyond Moongate," Imagination
18 x 24 canvas -- $700 framed

"Beyond Moongate" was inspired by Carly Metcalfe, a beautiful young poet from Australia. I shared some Holy Water I brought back from Lourdes France with Carly when she was 13 and very ill with Cystic Fibrosis. It helped her find faith and courage to survive. She is now 21, an extraordinary beautiful young woman. I gave Carly the original painting, a 30 x 36 major work. Close to 500 of the prints have been donated to Cystic Fybrosis fund raising. Click on the thumbnail at the right to see a larger image. You can also read my poem also titled Beyond Moongate.

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"Heaven's Gate, Yosemite"
22 x 30 -canvas- $800 framed
Also in Framed Miniature VIP -- $65

I was artist in residence in Yosemite for an entire Summer in the studio of the great 19th century painter Thomas Hill. I did this as a volunteer in the parks, refusing a grant. It was my desire to use my talent to give something back to America at the awe inspiring Yosemite. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see a larger image.

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"Return to Heaven's Gate," Imagination
22 x 30 canvas -- $800 framed

"Return to Heaven's Gate" has been a theme close to my heart. I have been exploring poetry and life philosophically in my paintings. The foreground is the garden of peace and serenity we can establish within the core of our being. The arches are the eyes of the soul, with the center arch being the mind's eye. If we cultivate peace within ourselves, we will relate to the world in a positive, helping way. I have used paintings and prints with this theme to raise funds from Earthquake relief in Japan to the Children fund in Oklahoma City, and local flood relief and church burning repairs. Click on the thumbnail at the right to see a larger image.You can also read my poem titled Return to Heaven's Gate.

Frame Example
Example of Gold Leaf Frame
used on all prints, including miniatures

Print Equity Program Half the cost of prints becomes credit toward originals. As the value of prints go up, as determined by price at Bleich Gallery, your equity also goes up. Equity can be used as down payment on originals or to reduce the cost of originals. There are some who have more money in equity than their original investment. You maintain ownership and do not trade the print in to exercise the equity program.

Print Options: Canvas tranfers of all prints are available without the Master Touch work at $200 less. Framed, they will run at $500 or $600.

All regular sized prints are available for $100 less unframed.

The Framed Miniature VIPs (Varnished Impressionist Prints) are $65 each, $230 for any four of the seven that I have. You have $50 equity for every mini you have. I have small originals that start at $700.

These works have a clear raised brushstroke impasto texture on the surface. There will be one of Mr. Bleich's poems and a sketched image on the back. The miniatures measure 10 x 11, and are framed in a gold leaf frame.

Shipping: $39 each for a regular size print. $5 for one Miniaturized VIP, $15 for set of four.

Email GJBleich@comcast.net to order a print or Minature VIP.