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Golden
IndustryArt materials
PredecessorBocour Artist Colors (1950s)
Founded1980;44 years ago(1980)
FounderSam Golden
Headquarters
New Berlin, New York
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United States
Key people
Adele Golden, Mark Golden, Barbara Golden
Chuck Kelly
ProductsAcrylic,oil,watercolor
Websitegoldenpaints

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 paintsthat 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 significantmuralprojects, including: the Michlalah murals inJerusalembyArchie Rand,VenusbyKnox Martin,and indoor murals byFrank StellaandRoy Lichtenstein.[1]

History

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During the 1930s,Sam Goldenjoined 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 Levinewould 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 paintwas 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 CountyChamber 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 Newsas a successful small business. In 1998, Mark Golden was selected byFortune Magazineto appear in its video series on small business. In 2002 Goldens became anESOPand will be 100% ESOP in 2020

References

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  1. ^"Mural Paints: Current and Future Formulations" by MARK GOLDEN, 2003, The Getty Conservation Institute[1]
  2. ^Just Paint Newsletter #27
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