Garo Zareh Antreasian (1922 – 2018) was an American printmaker and educator. He was one of the co-founders of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in
Los Angeles
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California
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Biography
Antreasian was born on February 16, 1922, in
Indianapolis
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Indiana
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, to an
Armenian
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family.
His parents had survived the
Armenian genocide
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of 1915.
Antreasian attended
Arsenal Technical High School
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, where he was introduced to lithography. He studied at the
Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis. He moved to New York in 1948 where he studied at
Atelier 17
Atelier 17 was an art school and studio that was influential in the teaching and promotion of printmaking in the 20th century. Originally located in Paris, the studio relocated to New York during the years surrounding World War II. It moved back ...
and the
Art Students League of New York
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Although artists may stu ...
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In 1960 he was one of the founders of the
Tamarind Lithography Workshop in
Los Angeles
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, California. There he served as the first technical director and master printer.
The Tamarind moved to
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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, where it became known as the Tamarind Institute. In 1964 Antreasian moved to Albuquerque as well, where he taught art at the
University of New Mexico
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(UNM) and retained his relationship with the Tamarind. He was involved with bringing the Tamarind Institute under the auspices of UNM.
Antreasian taught at UNM from 1964 to 1987 and eventually became the chairman of the Department of Art and Art History, and then professor emeritus after his retirement.
In 1985 Antreasian received a
Fulbright Award
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to travel to Brazil and lecture in Sáo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Antreasian died on November 3, 2018, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Antreasian's work is included in the collections of the
Art Institute of Chicago
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the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
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the
National Gallery of Art
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the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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, and
The Hyde Collection
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References
External links
Images of Antreasian's workfrom the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Oral history interview with Garo Zareh Antreasian, 1974 March 29from
Archives of American Art
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Smithsonian Institution
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Garo Antreasian: A print pioneerby David Greenhalgh from Kenneth Tyler Collection
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1922 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American artists
American printmakers
Atelier 17 alumni
American people of Armenian descent
Artists from Indianapolis
Herron School of Art and Design alumni