and Tamarind Institute, are now world-famous. The artists in Los Angeles have always independently produced what the trade knows as “artists’ books” and the city has always supported artists who wanted to produce prints. The exhibition currently on view features the total output of his publishing career, which has been jointly purchased by the Hammer and by the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. For two decades, he has enriched the art world with an old-fashioned medium, etching, working quietly at the service of the artists. After remaining discretely in the background, the printer is featured in the current exhibition at the Armand Hammer Museum, Outside the Box, which displays his entire Edition. Samuel, as the printer and publisher of his imprint, Edition Jacob Samuel (EJS), is completely in charge of his enterprise. With few exceptions he works only with artists whose oeuvre he has admired and known for at least ten years, and, if he finds that a project is not going well, he simply backs away. He gets artists to think “outside the box.” As publisher and printer of “Edition Jacob Samuel,” he does exactly what he wants-publishing prints by some of the most famous artists in the world and producing highly regarded editions of original works, prized by international museums. Jacob Samuel, a master printer and the art world’s “best-kept secret” has a life that many would envy.
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