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Named for the Hollywood street it faces, Tamarind is a complex of white-stucco-walled buildings where the lights generally burn late seven nights a week. "This place is a kind of a pressure cooker," says Director Wayne, 46. "If you don't have a lot of time to fool around, dammit, you don't fool around." The time ends in 1965, when the Ford subsidies stop and Tamarind will have to try to carry on by itself...
Direct as Oils. Seventy-two artists have come to Tamarind to see and conquer lithography. Lipchitz' only litho bears Tamarind's chop. Richard Diebenkorn, Antonio Frasconi, John Hult-berg, Henry Pearson, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, James McGarrell, Louise Nevelson, Rico Lebrun and Jose Luis Cuevas have done prints there...
...Tamarind does more than make lithos: it makes lithographers. Seventeen artisans, usually on leave from college graphic-arts departments, have received $1,200 grants for three-month working sojourns. Tamarind conducts a research lab where artisans experiment with new lithographic methods...
...Score Editions. Each edition, or "strike," of Tamarind lithos is limited to 20 for the artist to sell and nine un numbered prints for the workshop. Six of the nine are sold to collectors for the benefit of Tamarind; three are kept for historical, teaching and loan purposes. The artist, with his artisan, supervises each reproduction. Each of the artist's prints bears, in his own handwriting, the notation 1/20, 2/20, etc. After the scheduled number is completed, the stone is "regrained" (erased), and a cancellation proof is made to certify the end of the edition...
...Tamarind believes in the traditions of medieval guilds. Craftsmanship and cooperation between artist and artisan are the rule. Those who have left their studios to travel to the unartsy atmosphere of Tamarind have applauded the experience, and art buyers applaud the chance to get new art of all kinds at prices lower than single oils. After all, a score of lithos hardly floods the market...