Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures constructed from found objects. In 1963, she first collaborated with Tamarind Institute, a renowned center for fine art lithography when the workshop was based in Los Angeles on Tamarind Ave. The prints produced during this period in the workshop were not titled, unlike most of her sculptures and earlier prints. She used various drawing and image making materials, such as cheesecloth and lace, to create her drawings on stone. For the most part she worked in black, with occasional use of a deep indigo blue and a brick-red ink. She used the white of the paper to complete the forms in opposition to the deep opaque inks that were available at that time.

The imagery of the 1963 lithographs suggest the boxes and recessed forms of her monumental sculptural walls, bringing the three dimensional forms to a two dimensional medium. This book documents Nevelson’s ambitious series of lithographs that explore the optical possibilities and sensations of the printed surface.

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