The painterly screenprint is the remarkable specialty of Simca Print Artists' printers Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada, and Kenjiro Nomaka. Their reputation for virtuosity was established by a collaboration with Jasper Johns in 1972 in which they used subtle contrasts of transparency and opacity to produce prints of unprecedented luminescence and depth. By painting directly on the screen rather than relying on the knife or the camera, and by printing the screens in multiple translucent layers, artists working with Simca have created a singularly rich form of screenprint. Over a three-year period from 1990 to 1993 Bartlett created the four prints in The Four Seasons series.