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| Industry | Art materials |
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| Predecessor | Bocour Artist Colors (1950s) |
| Founded | 1980; 45 years ago (1980) |
| Founder | Sam Golden |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Adele Golden, Mark Golden, Barbara Golden Chuck Kelly |
| Products | Acrylic,oil,watercolor |
| Website | goldenpaints.com |
Golden Artist Colors, or simplyGolden, is anU.S. manufacturing company that focuses on paints used infine art, decoration, andcrafts. Based inNew Berlin, New York, the company produces a line ofacrylic paints that includes some recreations of historicpigments. Golden also manufactures the 'Williamsburg' line of artists'oil paints, QoRwatercolors, as well as lines of decorative and architectural paints and mediums.
Golden Artist Colors has collaborated with artists on significantmural projects, including: the Michlalah murals inJerusalem byArchie Rand,Venus byKnox Martin, and indoor murals byFrank Stella andRoy Lichtenstein.[1]
During the 1930s,Sam Golden joined his uncleLeonard 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 asBarnett Newman,Mark Rothko,Willem de Kooning,Jackson Pollock,Helen Frankenthaler,Knox Martin[2] andJack 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 artistacrylic paint was ready for sale calledMagna. One of the first artists to use Magna paint wasMorris 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 theChenango County Chamber of Commerce and the Council of the Arts. Mark Golden received the 1996 Small Business Person of the Year from theUnited States Small Business Administration. Golden Artist Colors was featured onNBC Nightly News as a successful small business. In 1998, Mark Golden was selected byFortune Magazine to appear in its video series on small business.In 2002 Goldens became anESOP and will be 100% ESOP in 2020
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