Fredrix® was founded in 1868 by E. H. Friedrichs was a businessman, a chemist, an inventor, an innovator and he was the first in America to manufacture artist canvas for the trade. Their best-selling canvases are universally primed for oil, acrylic or alkyd paints, and still prime their finest canvas the old-fashioned way… picked, pumiced and primed by hand with oil based ground.

Whether your choice is a machine primed canvas with universal acrylic gesso or hand primed canvas with natural glue sizing and oil-based ground, you can trust Fredrix® to provide you with your best overall painting experience!