Most of the printers who worked at Tamarind Lithography Workshop made a print or two of their own, and S. Tracy White was no exception. Over the course of his year-long training as a printer-fellow, he created four lithographs, all of which used the blended-inking method. For Queer Fruits II, however, White also used a photographic negative as the basis for his image. He then drew on it, made a new negative of the combined image and exposed a photosensitized plate that was then inked and run through the press. It is one of only a few photo-lithographs created at Tamarind, which rarely experimented with the process. In fact, even the plate was developed at Tamarind (see Otto Piene’s work Sky Art XIV: Campus). The process is widely used today, and it was employed by both Gemini and Cirrus early in their development.
Details
- Artist Name: S. Tracy White (American, 1947-)
- Title: Queer Fruits II
- Date: 1969
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
- Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
- Printer: S. Tracy White
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift, 1972
- Accession Number: P.1972.08.123
- Copyright: © 2011 S. Tracy White
Object Information
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2011-10-02 to 2012-04-02
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