[Rarebooks] FS: Mexican Printmaker Posada -1944 Brooklyn Museum Poster

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: Handbill- Posada: Printmaker to the Mexican People

Brooklyn Museum: 1944.

DISCUSSION: A handbill for the Brooklyn Museum's September 8-October 15, 
1944 exhibition of prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada. Their August 18, 
1944 press release for the exhibition explained: "The Brooklyn Museum 
will begin its fall exhibition season with a large show entitled POSADA 
— PRINTMAKER TO THE MEXICAN PEOPLE (September 8-October 15). Lent by the 
Direccion General de Educacion Estetica, Mexico, it contains over six 
hundred prints, blocks and photographic enlargements and will be 
installed in four large galleries on the second floor. The first great 
printmaker in the New World, Posada’s gigantic production of 
twenty-thousand subjects reached the remotest village. The Mexican 
people well understood his art, because he re-stated with simplicity and 
vigor their own legends and songs, their own inarticulate hopes and 
aspirations. Through the medium of his prints he was among those 
actively responsible in preparing the way for the 1910 Revolution. Not 
only a prophet of the armed-mass uprising, he was a creator of an 
artistic expression which reflected a new social philosophy and 
established the foundations for a new national art. An excellent 
draughtsman, his work has economy of line, boldness of contour and 
dramatic action. It establishes him, not as a folk artist, but as a 
highly competent master who portrayed his era with passionate honesty 
and revolutionary zeal."

DESCRIPTION: Handbill, 8.5"x11".

CONDITION NOTES: Several chips and tears, minor soil. Fragile.

PRICE: $50

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