Bob Dylan|The Beaten Path: The Silkscreen Collection

The silkscreens are the hand-printed side of 'The Beaten Path', issued in smaller editions than the series' main giclée releases. Each image is built up one colour at a time, every colour passing through its own screen, so slight variations between impressions are part of the process.

The first six came from the paintings Dylan showed at Halcyon Gallery in London in November 2016, and they opened as an exhibition of their own at Halcyon on 21 April 2017. Three of them, 'Brooklyn Heights', 'Endless Highway' and 'Manhattan Bridge, Downtown New York', had been editioned as giclées the year before, so the silkscreen gave each a second, hand-printed version. 'Late in the Day, Houston Street', 'New York Skyline, Seen From Queens' and 'Nowhere and Anywhere' made up the six. As Dylan has put it: "The picture can speak for itself, it either hits you or it doesn't. We see things in the context of our own experience."

The later releases

Almost seven years passed before the collection grew again. The 'Train Tracks' silkscreen issued in 2019 belongs to a different body of work. On 25 January 2024 came 'San Francisco Bay', a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, and 'Motorcycle Riders', two riders on the open road.

Two triptychs followed. 'Mountain Road' (24 January 2025) runs a single scene of snow-capped peaks and evergreens under a pastel sky across three panels. 'Joshua Tree, Sunrise Triptych II' (27 February 2026) turns to the Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree National Park. A specialist atelier in California printed each of its panels separately, pulling every colour by hand, and inspected the finished triptych before Dylan signed it.

The giclée chapters ran alongside these releases. Six months after the first silkscreens, 'The Beaten Path 2017' added 15 more giclées in October 2017, and the giclée releases have continued to 'The Beaten Path 2026'.