Taller de Gráfica Popular Pictorial Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-2001-025
Scope and Content
Collection consists of posters (74+), flyers (71+), prints (50+), serials (57+), filmstrip illustrations (5+), ephemera (76+), and objects (1 printing block) ranging in date from 1935-2001. Subjects predominately focus on international issues of the 1940s-1960s, including fascism and national socialism, in addition to Mexican topics, such as agriculture, labor issues, and the nationalization of the petroleum industry. Urban and rural issues are addressed and most all works contain a social/political message conveyed through texts and graphics. Most works are identified by artist, date, and a title. There are a small number of TGP-related works and works done by guest artists invited to work at the TGP.
Some of the artists represented in this collection are Alfredo Zalce, Luis Arenal, Alberto Beltran, Angel Bracho, Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo O'Higgins and Mariana Yampolsky.
Item level database of the original accession available on CSWR Anderson Reading Room computer.
The first addition contains 3 oversize prints depicting a man in uniform looking through binoculars, an image of a Russian city through the binoculars, and the uniformed man being chased by a bayonet. These prints are believed to have been a part of the TGP Moscow exhibition of 1940. Most prints are 94 x 68 cm or smaller.
Some of the artists represented in this collection are Alfredo Zalce, Luis Arenal, Alberto Beltran, Angel Bracho, Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo O'Higgins and Mariana Yampolsky.
Item level database of the original accession available on CSWR Anderson Reading Room computer.
The first addition contains 3 oversize prints depicting a man in uniform looking through binoculars, an image of a Russian city through the binoculars, and the uniformed man being chased by a bayonet. These prints are believed to have been a part of the TGP Moscow exhibition of 1940. Most prints are 94 x 68 cm or smaller.
Dates
- 1935-2001
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
History
These prints were made, individually or collectively, by artists associated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP), a graphics workshop founded in Mexico City in 1937. The prints were largely created for public display and distribution of an ephemeral nature, as reflected by the materials employed.
The TGP Moscow exhibition in 1940 (101 prints by 15 members) was not well recieved by Soviet commentators who dismissed the "nonrealist" styles used by the TGP.
Source: Craven, David. 2002. Art and revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990. New Haven: Yale University Press.
The TGP Moscow exhibition in 1940 (101 prints by 15 members) was not well recieved by Soviet commentators who dismissed the "nonrealist" styles used by the TGP.
Source: Craven, David. 2002. Art and revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Extent
338 items (14 boxes, 11 folders) : 338 works on paper, filmstrip illustrations, ephemera and objects ; prints: 94 x 68 cm and smaller
Abstract
Collection consists of posters, flyers, prints, serials, filmstrip illustrations, and ephemera (calendars and notecards) ranging in date from 1935-1990. Subjects predominately focus on international issues of the 1940s-1960s, including fascism and national socialism, in addition to Mexican topics, such as agriculture, labor issues, and the nationalization of the petroleum industry.
Physical Location
B2. Folios shelved in oversize drawers by Pictorial Number. Boxes shelved in Big Box location by Pictorial Number. Extra-oversize prints filed in extra-oversize drawers by Pictorial Number.
Collection Available Online
Most of the Taller de Gráfica Popular Pictorial Collection is available online at New Mexico's Digital Collections.
General
Item level database available on CSWR Anderson Reading Room computer.
Processing Information
The original accession was processed in 2001.
The first addition was purchased in 2015.
A second addition, processed in 2017, includes individual accessions of TGP items formerly recorded as unprocessed collections PICT 2005-012, PICT 2005-013, PICT 2005-014, along with re-processed items from PICT 2001-002. These have been interfiled with like items into the original accession series.
The first addition was purchased in 2015.
A second addition, processed in 2017, includes individual accessions of TGP items formerly recorded as unprocessed collections PICT 2005-012, PICT 2005-013, PICT 2005-014, along with re-processed items from PICT 2001-002. These have been interfiled with like items into the original accession series.
- Agriculture -- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Arenal, Luis
- Art -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Art, Mexican -- Exhibitions -- Pictorial works
- Beltrán, Alberto
- Bracho, Angel, 1911-
- Education -- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Fascism -- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Labor movement -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Linocuts
- Lithographs
- Mexico -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Méndez, Leopoldo, 1902-1969
- National socialism -- Germany -- Pictorial works
- O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-1983
- Peace movements -- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Petroleum industry and trade -- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Posters
- Printing blocks (printing surfaces)
- Prints (visual works)
- Propaganda, Mexican
- Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Yampolsky, Mariana, 1925-2002
- Zalce, Alfredo, 1908-2003
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Taller de Gráfica Popular Pictorial Collection, 1935-2001
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Eileen Hogan
- Date
- © 2007, 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451