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Tamarind Techniques for Fine Art Lithography (2009)
By Marjorie Devon with Bill Lagattuta and Rodney Hamon

Hardcover
$85.00

Tamarind Techniques for Fine Art Lithography is a must-have for every lithographer, workshop, library and classroom. This full-color technical manual contains step-by-step directions for all processes used at Tamarind and guidance for establishing a print studio, safety and storage information on chemicals, and advice about maintaining quality, documenting editions, and caring for works of art on paper. Special Edition also available.

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Photolithography: A Manual (2002)
$25.00
A fully-illustrated up-to-date manual on photolithography published in 2002 by Tamarind Institute. Includes step-by-step instructions for creating, preparing, and developing plates or stones. A glossary, supplier list, and troubleshooting section are also included. 29 Pages. This manual may not be returned.
Tamarind:40 Years Tamarind: Forty Years
Hardcover, out of print
Soft cover, $19.95
Published by The University of New Mexico Press in celebration of Tamarind's fortieth anniversary. Edited by Tamarind Director Marjorie Devon, it includes essays by Devon, David Acton, Clinton Adams, Pat Gilmour, and Susan Tallman that range from historical to contemporary topics; chronologies of exhibitions and outreach programs; lists of artists, printers, and curators who have worked at Tamarind. 206 pages; 200 illustrations, 100 in color.
Aluminum Plate Manual Aluminum Plate Lithography: A Manual
$25.00
A fully-illustrated up-to-date manual on aluminum plate lithography published in 1999 by Tamarind Institute. Includes step-by-step instructions for preparing, processing, and printing plates, a glossary, and supplier list. This manual may not be returned.
Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art
$24.95
Native American artists featured in this book include: Steven Deo (Creek/Euchee), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee), Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa/Arapaho), and Marie Watt (Seneca).

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American Lithographers, 1900-1960
By Clinton Adams
Out of print.
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Catalogue of Tamarind Lithographs Available for Purchase
$30.00
An illustrated, loose-leaf catalogue with biographical information about each artist and a current price list of available lithographs. Purchasers receive updates biannually.
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Catalogue Raisonné: Tamarind Institute 1970-1979
Compiled by Rebecca Schnelker and Judith Booth; edited by R. Schnelker.
$15.00
Documentation of the lithographs printed at Tamarind in Albuquerque through 1979. 1980; 80 pages, not illustrated.
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Catalogue Raisonné, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., 1960-1970
Documentation and small black-and-white photographs of all lithographs printed at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., in Los Angeles. 1989; 235 artists and 3,081 prints represented.
Out of Print
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Code of Ethics For Original Printmaking No Longer Available!
$18.00
Published by the Counseil quebecois de l'estampe, Montreal, 2000. In English and French. 83 pages in each language, 16 color reproductions. A Guidebook for all printmakers, and helpful for collectors as well.
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How to Identify Prints
$34.95 (soft cover)
By Bamber Gascoigne
An excellent guide to printmaking techniques and their visual effects; includes helpful illustrations and an invaluable reference section. Thams and Hudson, 2004 (2nd edition). 216 pages, 275 illustrations, 40 in color.
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Mexico Nueve
$16.00
A description of the collaboration between nine Mexican artists and Tamarind printers between 1984 and 1986. Tamarind Institute, 1987. 56 pages, 22 color and 11 black-and-white illustrations; bilingual interviews and text.
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Monotype/Monoprint No Longer Available!
By Kurt Wisneski
$35.00
With more than a decade of research, Wisneski places contemporary monotypes and monoprints into historical perspective. Bullbrier Press, 1995. 52 color and 41 black-and-white illustrations.
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Nineteenth-Century Lithography in Europe
By Clinton Adams.
$12.00
A handbook offering a condensed history of nineteenth-century lithography. University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1998. 28 color and 40 black and white illustrations.
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Printer's Impressions
$10.00
An illustrated catalogue of the 1990 exhibition and symposium honoring collaborative printmaking, with essays by Robert Blackburn, Kathan Brown, Serge Lozingot, and Kenneth Tyler. The Albuquerque Museum, 1990. 25 pages, 11 illustrations.
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Tamarind Book of Lithography
By Clinton Adams and Garo Antreasian.
Out of Print
NEW EDITION COMMING SOON!

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Tamarind: Suite Fifteen
$10.00
A catalogue of the 1975 University of New Mexico Art Museum exhibition and suite of fifteen lithographs published to commemorate Tamarind's first fifteen years. Text by Gustave von Groschwitz. 1977; 56 pages, 46 illustrations.

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Four Stones for Kanemitsu (VHS Video or DVD)
$25.00
1973; 28:15


An Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary (Short Subject), this classic film produced at Tamarind Lithography Workshop shows the collaboration between artist Matsumi Kanemitsu and Master Printer Serge Lozingot as they create a four-color lithograph. Beginning with the graining of the stones, the camera follows the process through the esthetic and technical challenges in drawing, printing, and proofing this complex image. Never before has the actual sense of making a color lithograph in a professional workshop been so vividly and effectively captured in this superb film.

Two videos produced at Tamarind Institute offer detailed instructions for Working on Stone and Working on Aluminum Plate. These "short courses" present updated technical information from Clinton Adams' and Garo Antreasian's highly acclaimed Tamarind Book of Lithography. This effective visual format makes the medium even more accessible to students, teachers, printmakers, and collectors.

The Art of Lithography:Working on Stone (VHS Video )
$50.00
1989; 26:06

The basics of stone lithography, featuring artist George McNeil and Master Printer Bill Lagattuta. After McNeil draws, paints, and scratches on a lithographic stone, the camera follows Lagatutta and his assistants through the steps of preparing and processing the stone and then printing the edition.

The Art of Lithography: Working on Plate (VHS Video)
$50.00
1989; 23:42


Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Master Printer Jeffrey Sippel collaborate to create a four-color lithograph from aluminum plates, demonstrating the special techniques used in plate lithography.

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the tamarind papers: a journal of fine print

The Tamarind Papers

Iincludes historical, critical, and technical articles on fine prints. The journal was published by Tamarind Institute from 1974 through 1992; subsequently by Tamarind in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Press. All volumes are currently available; volumes 15, 16, and 17 are described below in detail. See the Tamarind Technical Papers Index for a list of artists, authors, articles, and subjects from volumes 1 - 17.

Hot off the press: prints and politics The Tamarind Papers, Volume 15 (1993-94)
Hot Off the Press: Prints and Politics


Edited by Linda P. Tyler and Barry Walker
Hardbound, $45.00
Softbound, $24.95

For years, the Tamarind Papers has provided a forum for the examination of issues related to printmaking. This collection of essays by printers, artists, curators, and historians, the first issue of the Tamarind Papers to be produced in book form, focuses on issues surrounding the interaction of the printmaker with the political realities of society.

The New Deal, with its WPA art projects, was a golden age for lithographic printmakers. In this collection are found a tribute to Gustave von Groschwitz, a central figure in the federal Graphic Arts Division of the WPA in New York; an essay on and checkli st of the prints of Robert Gwathmey, active in the Philadelphia WPA project and concerned conditions of African-Americans in the South.


Included in this volume is an original print by Eric Avery. In addition, there are interviews with Eric Avery and Patrick Nagatani, both artists concerned with current social issues; an overview of the evolution of social awareness in nineteenth-century F rench prints; and articles by two Tamarind Master Printers on waterless lithography.

Lithography continues to thrive both by honoring its long artistic heritage and by engaging in ongoing experimentation This volume celebrates that rich diversity.


Second Impressions: Modern Prints and Printmakers Reconsidered

The Tamarind Papers, Volume 16 (1995-96)
Second Impressions: Modern Prints and Printmakers Reconsidered

Edited by Clinton Adams
Softbound, $29.95


This collection of essays, the second volume of The Tamarind Papers to be produced in book form by the University of New Mexico Press, offers print experts the rare opportunity to reexamine topics in the history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-cen tury prints. Of the twelve essays in the book, some correct what has been previously published, some add new information to the record; others reevaluate new prints or printmakers in the light of changed historical perspectives.

Three of the essays focus on late nineteenth-century France. One examines Paul Signac's unpublished correspondence with his printer August Clot to clarify circumstances that surround publication of his radiant color lithographs in he 1890's. One looks at anti-Modernist Paul Blanc, and another reevaluates the diversity of art in France during this period. Another series of articles explores aspects of American printmaking by reexamining the work of Child Hassam, Wanda Gag, Arshile Gorky, Will Barnet, John Steuart Curry, and the Federal Art Project's lithography unit in San Francisco.

All told, these essays not only add to our knowledge of specific artist and their prints but also suggest methodologies through which other historians may usefully reconsider and reappraise the complex history of the modern print.
Intersections The Tamarind Papers, Volume 17 (1997-98)
Intersections: Lithography, Photography, and the Traditions of Printmaking

Edited by Kathleen Stewart Howe,Curator of Prints and Photographs, University of New Mexico Art Museum

Soft cover, $29.95


This collection of essays, Volume 17 of The Tamarind Papers and the third to be produced in book form, describes the intersections of lithography, photography, and established printmaking techniques. Considering topics from William Henry Fox Talbot's botanical illustrations and the Lemerciers' invention of photolithography to the sociopolitical prints of Ben Shahn and Walton Ford's incorporation of the photograph in contemporary lithography, these nine essays mark the hundredth anniversary of the lithographic print and expand the history of graphic processes in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The connections between lithography and photography are many and varied. This volume expands the reader's knowledge of the history of printmaking and underscores the enduring beauty of prints. Kathleen Stewart Howe, Ph.D., curator of prints and photographs at the University of New Mexico, Art Museum, is the author of Revealing the Holy Land, Excursions Along the Nile and Felix Teynard: Calotypes of Egypt

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Stacked Deck

THE STACKED DECK: is a usable deck of cards, reproduced from original drawings (see link) made specifically for this project by forty-five different artists to benefit production of Tamarind Institute's online catalogue raisonné. Makes a great gift!

$25.00 each

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Postcards

Package of 16 cards, each with a different artist's image related to Route 66. Artists include Chester Arnold, Charles (Charlie) Carrillo, Susan Davidoff, Eddie Dominguez, Tony Evanko, Eileen Foti, Roberto Juarez, Scott Kuykendall, Lydia Madrid, Michael Nakoneczny, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Dan Rizzie, José Rodriguez, Ed Ruscha, Ken Saville, and William Wiley.

$15 per package (16 cards)



Ken Saville
Roberto Juarez
Davidoff Susan Davidoff
Ruscha Ed Ruscha
William Wiley
Tony Evanko
Eileen Foti
Eddie Dominguez

Lydia Madrid
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
Dan Rizzie
Charlie Carrillo
Michael Nakoneczny
Scott Kuykendall
Jose Rodriguez
Chester Arnold

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Tamarind Logo T-shirts and aprons t-shirts

These t-shirts, baseball caps, and aprons carry the prestigious Tamarind logo and are stylish, rugged, and long-lasting.

White heavy-duty 100% cotton T-shirt with bright yellow and black

Black heavy-duty 100% cotton T-shirt with white lettering

Sizes L, XL, XXL

Short-sleeve, $10.00
Long sleeve, $15.00
Long-sleeve XXL (Black only), $17.00

Short sleeve, in light gray or dark gray, $7.50 (not pictured), S+M only

aprons

Heavy-duty shop or kitchen aprons in navy blue, dark green, black and red. $18.00

baseball caps

Cap photograph

Khaki-colored with dark brown Tamarind logo stitched on front. Size is adjustable. $15.00

Plus: $5.00 shipping and handling for the first item, plus $2.00 for each addition item.

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