[Rarebooks] F/S Francisco Mora Linocut of Guillermo Prieto Pradillo Mexican Novelist & Poet

[Garry R Austin]

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PO Box 730
Wilmington Vt 05363
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802 464-8438

Francisco Mora. "Guillermo Prieto".  Original Linocut; Np: Nd; (Probably 
Taller de Gráfica Popular) Signed in the Plate, "Mora" lower left and 
"Grabado De Francisco Mora" printed in the margin, lower right; The 
plate measures 15.75" x 11.5". It has been folded but would press out, 
we have simply smoothed the folds; A strong, vigorous portrait.

Subject; Guillermo Prieto Pradillo (1818-1897) was a Mexican novelist, 
short-story writer, poet, chronicler, journalist, essayist, patriot and 
Liberal politician. According to Eladio Cortés, during his lifetime he 
was considered Mexico's national poet, and his political allegiance to 
the Mexican liberals allowed him to serve as Minister of Finance and 
Foreign Affairs under different administrations. In his writings he used 
several pen names, including Don Benedeno and Fidel.

Artist; Francisco Mora was born in 1922 in Uruapan, Michoacán. His 
father was a weaver, musician, and Mexican artist. In 1941, Mora 
relocated to Mexico City where he began exhibiting with the Taller de 
Gráfica Popular, a communal graphics workshop founded by artists Leopold 
Méndez, Pablo O'Higgins and Luis Arenal that built on Mexico's rich 
tradition of political printmaking in order to advance revolutionary 
political and social causes. In 1947, Mora married renowned 
African-American artist Elizabeth Catlett, with whom he exhibited 
widely. Francisco Mora died in 2002.
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