The History of Printmaking: Rauschenberg at Tamarind in Hollywood
Warrington Colescott, The History of Printmaking: Rauschenberg at Tamarind in Hollywood, 1978, soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils, printed in color on cream Arches paper, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © Warrington Colescott, 80.47.1j
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- Title
The History of Printmaking: Rauschenberg at Tamarind in Hollywood
- Related Titles
series (original language): The History of Printmaking
- Artist
- Related People
subject: Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008)
subject of: Tamarind Lithograph Workshop
- Date
1978
- Medium
soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils, printed in color on cream Arches paper
- Edition
4/75
- Catalogue Raisonné
Chapin 226
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 21 15/16 in x 27 3/4 in; sheet: 24 7/8 in x 35 3/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
watermark: Arches France, watermark, lower right
signature: Warrington Colescott, graphite, lower right
title: History of Printmaking: Rauschenberg at Tamarind, in Hollywood, graphite, lower left
edition: lower left, graphite, 4/75
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
80.47.1j
- Copyright
© Warrington Colescott
- Terms
This lively print is cast as a Hollywood production, as the famous artist Robert Rauschenberg prepares a print at Tamarind Lithograph Workshop. Colescott manages to spoof not only Rauschenberg and Tamarind, but also the "master printers on parade," the dancing print curators, the "ballet of the apprentice fellows," and the grant evaluator, thereby mocking the circus of publicity and the cult of personality surrounding famous artists.
June Wayne, the dynamic and formidable founder of Tamarind Press, is nearly lost among the dazzling composition, as she is relegated to pushing a vacuum cleaner in the lower left.
- Exhibitions
2013 In the Studio: Reflections on Artistic Life Portland Art Museum
