Gamboa collection of prints by José Guadalupe Posada (Gen. File Collection) [picture]. 1888 -1944.

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Gamboa collection of prints by José Guadalupe Posada (Gen. File Collection) [picture]. 1888 -1944.

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Collection consists of broadsides, portraits, chapbooks, and restrikes. These include songbooks, single-sheet corridos (popular ballads), how-to booklets on writing love letters and cooking, books of predictions, gameboards, lithographic portraits of bullfighters, devotional texts and images, and children's literature. All are illustrated by Jose Guadalupe Posada or, in some cases by Manuel Manilla and other (unidentified) artists. The restrikes were made c. 1940-1944. These are prints of the illustration blocks without text. Subjects range from humorous to didactic, romantic to religious and political. Posada's signature "calaveras" (humorous skeletal figures) are represented, as are sensational crime and supernatural subjects, and popular songs printed by Mexico City's leading penny press publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Print processes include etching, type-metal engraving, and lithography. These prints were originally collected by Mexican art historian Fernando Gamboa.

361 photographic prints ; 24 x 16 in. or smaller.

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Manilla, Manuel ca. 19. / 20. Jh.

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Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913

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Born in poverty in 1852, Jose Guadalupe Posada (b. February 31, 1853-d. January 20, 1913) became the "Printmaker to the Mexican People," an influence on future Mexican artists such as Orozco and Rivera, and is often compared to such icons as Goya and Daumier. Posada is labelled an artist, a folk illustrator and a political cartoonist; no matter how he is categorized, it is clear that, through his prolific career, "an inarticulate public found expression." Posada left his ...

Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, 1852-1917

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A member of the printers' group at Sta. Teresa 1, Mexico D.F., with Jose Guadaluupe Posada. From the description of El Gran Descarrilamiento : broadsheet and printer's block, 1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872611 Biography Antonio Vanegas Arroyo was born in Puebla, Mexico around 1850; in 1867 he moved to Mexico City; he later established a printing house, and before the turn of the century issued a series of smal...