Tatyana Grosman

Tatyana Grosman (June 30, 1904 – July 24, 1982) was a Russian American printmaker and publisher. She founded Universal Limited Art Editions.

Personal life Tatyana Aguschewitsch was born in Ekaterinburg, Russian Empire to Jewish parents, Semion Michailovitch Auguschewitsch and Anna de Chochor. In 1918, she and her family emigrated to Japan. She attended the Sacred Heart Convent School, located in Tokyo. Her family later left Japan and spent time in Venice and Munich. They finally settled in Dresden. She studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Her studies focused mainly on drawing and fashion. Tatyana then decided that instead of continuing to create reproductions that she wanted to encourage collaborations between artists and writers and act as a publisher for these collaborations. The first collaboration that she worked on was between painter Larry Rivers and poet Frank O’Hara and it was called Stones. Following this came a project by Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Robbe-Grillet. In 1966 Grosman hired master printmaker Donn Steward with an early grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Steward would work there until 1974.

Many of the prints from Universal Limited Art Editions were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago and they were shown in exhibitions throughout the world.

From the time of its founding, to her death, Tatyana Grosman was involved in expanding ULAE to include many different forms of art, including but not limited to:

She also worked with many artists through ULAE, some of them being: