Tamarind Institute Pictorial Collection
Scope and Content
The collection includes portraits of Tamarind artists and staff (including Clinton Adams, June Wayne, Garo Antreasian) and photographic reproductions of artists' works. The collection also includes photographic illustrations from the Tamarind Book of Lithography, which demonstrates and explains lithographic processes and workshop procedures. Not all persons and subjects represented in the collection are indexed. The Tamarind Institute Records collection contains the videos, "Four Stones for Kanemitsu" and "The Look of a Lithographer."
Dates
- Creation: 1959-1997
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
History
In 1959, artist June Wayne submitted a proposal to the Ford Foundation for the establishment of a workshop devoted to the revival and preservation of the art of lithography. Wayne's proposal was accepted and Tamarind Lithography Workshop was established in Los Angeles, California. It opened on July 1, 1960 with Clinton Adams as associate director and Garo Antreasian as master printer. As a non-profit organization the workshop trained a small group of master printers to work in conjunction with artists in order to produce lithographic prints. The workshop also provided facilities, materials, and services. In 1963, a preliminary training program was instituted at the John Herron Art Institute. Garo Antreasian was in charge of the training, and when he left Herron and joined the Art Department at University of New Mexico, the basic training was transferred to Albuquerque. By 1969, Tamarind had achieved its initial goals. June Wayne requested and received a final grant from Ford to establish the Tamarind Institute as a separate division of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico
Extent
23 boxes (3890 photographic prints, 929 color slides, 170 color transparencies, microfilm), 1 unprocessed box
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Abstract
This collection includes portraits of Tamarind artists and staff and photographic reproductions of artists' works. The collection also includes photographic illustrations, which demonstrate and explain lithographic processes and workshop procedures.Tamarind Book of Lithography, which demonstrates and explains lithographic processes and workshop procedures.
Arrangement
Collection arranged into 23 series:
- Artists
- Cuevas Commission for Orchestral Society
- Curators
- Exhibitions
- Groups
- Guests
- Lithographs
- Marketing Class
- Microfilm
- Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous Photographic Prints
- Parties
- Printers
- Procedures
- Shop at Work
- Slides
- Staff, Collectors, Board Members, Visitors
- Swaddack Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
- Tamarind Book of Lithography
- Tamarind Furniture
- Transparencies
- Videos - Four Stones for Kanemitsu, Look of a Lithographer
- Workshops Started by Tamarind Trainees
Physical Location
B2. Shelved by Pictorial Number.
Other Finding Aid Available
A guide with Tamarind Institute numbers is available in the Anderson Reading Room.
Images available online
Selections of the Tamarind Institute Pictorial Collection are available online via New Mexico Digital Collections.
Separated Material
Pictorial material was separated from the Tamarind Institute Records .
Subject
- Antreasian, Garo Z., 1922-2018 (Person)
- Adams, Clinton, 1918-2002 (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Tamarind Institute Pictorial Collection, 1959-1997
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2007
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
cswrref@unm.edu