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Some More Art Work In My Apartment That Makes Me Feel Good!

Some More Art Work In My Apartment That Makes me Feel Good!

A Photo Of Leopoldo Mendez:


Some signed lithographs by a few revolutionary artists that I have

By Lynda Carson

In some quarters of life, most people have probably never heard of the famed revolutionary artists including Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo O’Higgins, Raul Anguiano, Alberto Beltran, or Francisco Dosamantes. It’s not as though they have become household names through the years.

But in the world of art, higher education, art classes, museums, and auction houses, apparently their artwork is well known, and highly sought after.

Sorry that I did not give much information about them further above, and hope that for those who may be interested, the following information below may shed a little light on these great revolutionary artists.

They have each passed away a number of years ago, but their artwork and legacy remains as a reminder of the art and beauty they brought to this planet while they were still alive, while they were connected to the great artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo long ago.

I have had the signed lithographs in my possession for the past 38 years, and they have brought great joy, beauty, and wonderment into my life through the years while they hang on the wall of my apartment.

For what it's worth. I feel lucky to have saved them from a dumpster many years ago after they were tossed out in Berkeley by some people who worked for the "Peoples Daily World" at the time, when the newspaper packed up and moved out of Berkeley. They threw many things away into a dumpster in the process.

I took the lithographs home after I found them in the dumpster, and hung them up on the walls of my apartment. I really liked them for some reason. However, it took me a very long time before I actually realized what I had, that I have managed to save from the dumpster so many years ago. It was years later after I got a computer and figured out how to use it for doing some research, that I discovered that they were some famous artists from the legendary Taller de Grafica Popular. I gave a few of the signed lithographs away through the years by some great artists to some friends, but have somehow managed to save "5 of them" during the past 38 years... What a world.

See a few links below…

Sincerely,

-Lynda Carson


(Note: I have a beautiful signed lithograph called Merry-Go-Round, by Leopoldo Mendez)

Leopoldo Mendez

SIGNED by MEX. ARTIST LEOPOLDO MENDEZ ORIG. LINOLEUM CUT PRINT MERRY-GO -ROUND

Click below…

https://picclick.com/SIGNED-by-MEX-ARTIST-LEOPOLDO-MENDEZ-ORIG-253551753395.html

https://collections.lacma.org/node/203420

Mexican exhibit sheds light on lives of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera

Published May 7, 2016 7:30pm

MEXICO CITY —  For more than 50 years, intimate photos and documents belonging to Mexico's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera had been locked away in their private Mexico City resident.
Now, new personal letters, manuscripts, official documents and photographs are on display in Rivera's former San Angel studio and home which he once shared with Kahlo.

Espinoza explained the exhibit intends to show rare material belonging to Kahlo, Rivera, Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma, Isabel Villasenor, Francisco Goitia and Leopoldo Mendez and expose significant connections between their communications.

"To see and explore aspects of these important artists like Diego and Frida, as well as Leopoldo Mendez, etc. Diverse aspects that belong to their intimate life. You'll see in some documents that they were written in this area and on these furnishings and they are returning here," said academic co-ordinator of the project, Carlos Guevara.

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/artandculture/565428/mexican-exhibit-sheds-light-on-lives-of-frida-kahlo-diego-rivera/story/

Some artists including Leopoldo Mendez, and Diego Rivera

https://www.krabarchive.com/ralphmag/ES/mendez-woodcuts.html

https://www.park-books.com/en/product/mexican-graphic-art/668

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(Note: I have a signed lithograph called The Maguey of Topilejo, by Pablo O’ Higgins)

Pablo O’Higgins

The Maguey of Topilejo, Pablo O’ Higgins

PABLO O’ HIGGINS  “The Maguey of Topilejo”  Signed Lithograph 1950
Los Magueyes. Pablo O' Higgins

https://www.etsy.com/listing/213878008/pablo-ohiggins-the-maguey-of-topilejo

https://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/o_higgins_pablo_themagueyoftopilejo.htm

Pablo O’Higgins

Pablo O’Higgins (1904-83) was actually born under the name Paul Higgins in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1904. His family had migrated westward for the opportunities offered by the expansion known as Manifest Destiny. O’Higgins attended Salt Lake City public schools including East High School, where he was influenced by his teacher LeConte Stewart. In 1924, he traveled to Mexico City to see the murals Diego Rivera was painting. O’Higgins became an assistant to Rivera, working with him on several of his most famous mural projects before becoming a muralist in his own right. He co-founded Mexico’s most important printmaking studio, the Taller de Grafica Popular. Today, Mexico considers him one of the most important muralists of its “second generation” of mural painters. O’Higgins became a Mexican citizen in 1961. 

https://umfa.utah.edu/pablo

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(Note: I have a signed lithograph called "Cabeza de la Mujer (Portrait of Na Kin)" by Raul Anguiano)

Raul Anguiano

Raul Anguiano - "Cabeza de la Mujer (Portrait of Na Kin)" by Raul Anguiano

https://www.etsy.com/listing/213879530/raul-anguiano-la-cabeza-de-la-mujer

https://www.mcfinearts.com/products/8

Brushes With Greatness : Mexican Muralist and Bowers Supporters Meet Over a Wall
By KATHRYN BOLD
Jan. 12, 1999 12 AM PT

The event: A reception for renowned Mexican muralist Raul Anguiano, held Thursday at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana. Anguiano put the first brush strokes on a mural that will become a permanent addition to the Bowers’ collection and the first example of the artist’s work in the United States.

Painting for posterity: More than 200 guests witnessed art history in the making when they gathered to watch Anguiano begin the 180-inch-by-100-inch mural.

Putting it in perspective: Raul Anguiano, who in Mexico is considered a living treasure, is a contemporary of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. His works can be found around the world, from the Vatican to Mexico City’s Museo de Antropologia.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-12-cl-62884-story.html

Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he studied art and became interested in both ancient Mexican and contemporary popular art. In 1934, he moved to Mexico City, where he met Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and created his first large-scale mural. In 1937, he joined the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists) and cofounded the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Workshop), an artists’ print collective.

https://www.famsf.org/artworks/untitled-seated-girl-holding-a-bitter-orange

Photograph of Marta Adams at dinner event with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Raul Anguiano, Frances Toor, Alfredo Zalce, José Clemente Orozco, and others

https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/photograph-marta-adams-dinner-event-diego-rivera-frida-kahlo-raul-anguiano-frances-toor-alfredo-zalce-jos-clemente-orozco-and-others-18794

https://www.si.edu/object/photograph-marta-adams-dinner-event-diego-rivera-frida-kahlo-raul-anguiano-frances-toor-alfredo%3AAAADCD_item_18794

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(Note: I have a signed lithograph called Grinding Sugar Cane, by Alberto Beltran.)

Alberto Beltran

Grinding Sugar Cane

https://www.ebay.com/itm/386663596259

https://woodandstoneprints.com/listing/585251610/alberto-beltran-pencil-signed-taller-de

MFA exhibit illustrates a revolution in Mexican printmaking
Chris Bergeron/DAILY NEWS STAFF  |  MetroWest Daily News

For her first Museum of Fine Arts exhibit, curator Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell has brought together exciting works by several of Mexico's most influential printmakers of the early 20th century.

Visually dazzling and informative, "Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints" showcases 27 lithographs, linocuts and woodcuts from the MFA's collection.

Artists as stylistically varied as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Alberto Beltran are represented in prints ranging from the 1920s to the 1950s.

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/2009/06/07/mfa-exhibit-illutrates-revolution-in/41249128007/

Some collectible art prints of Alberto Beltran, Diego Rivera, and Pablo O’Higgins…

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?material=Prints&page=1&q=New+York+City&geolocation=Mexico

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(Note: I have a signed lithograph called Tres Mujeres (Three Women), by Francisco Dosamantes)

Francisco Dosamantes

Francisco Dosamantes (Mexican, b. 1911) Women of Oaxaca

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1528359491/francisco-dosamantes-tres-mujeres-three?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

https://stevensfineart.com/artist-item.php?itemId=6500083&title=Women+of+Oaxaca&artistId=220926&artist=Francisco+Dosamantes&fromCart=1

https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2507/lots/61

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/wall-decorations/prints/francisco-dosamantes-original-lithograph-1946-women-oaxaca/id-f_23200042/

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/656914

https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/250380?position=0&context=person&id=31855

https://www.artnet.com/artists/francisco-dosamantes/women-of-oaxaca-wxvl0GwNwFp4leToiG1cPA2


Mexican Artists Diego Rivera, José Orozco, Francisco Dosamantes
525 Tour of Watershed and Future Cache at the University of Museum Museum of Art, narrated by Jennifer Freiss, and hosted by Sydney Richards, Liz Seger and Grace Van De.
 
Top Left: Diego Rivera Hat Makers, 1931, India ink
Bottom Left: José Orozco, Marching Women, ca. 1929, Lithograph on paper.
Right: Francisco Dosamantes, Gathering Up Kernels, Linoleum cut on Paper.
 
"The figures in these three powerful works representing various aspects of rural life in Mexico are reminiscent of the proletarian protagonists of many of Eisentstein's films and their struggles against economic privation and political domination. The camaraderie and teamwork of Diego Rivera's "Haymakers" stands in stark contrast to the shared desperation of the women in Dosmante's "Gathering Up Kernels", while the mystery of the story unfolding in Orozco's "Marching Women" conjure the uncertainty and foreboding of war and displacement." -from the informative plaque to the right of the three works.
 
September 28, 2022.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/marylea/52423613789


Francisco Dosamantes

Biography

Mexican printmaker and muralist; a member of the TGP; known in the United States primarily for his prints, but in Mexico carried out a number of mural commissions; a protegé of Diego Rivera, who partially sponsored his first solo exhibition 1930; in the 1930s was employed by the government's Program of Cultural Missions in Oaxaca and other towns; also worked in the state of Campeche as Director of the School and Workshop of Drawing and Painting, and his lithographs and woodcuts were used widely throughout the state in the government's campaign against illiteracy; first solo exhibition in the USA at the ACA Gallery, New York, September 1946; used the signature "2AMANTES", ( the two standing for 'dos' and Amantes meaning 'lovers').


https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG130894


Francisco Dosamantes

Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Dosamantes


The Pinkowitz Gift Adds 300 Revolutionary Mexican Prints to the Met’s Collection

Many of the works in JoAnn Pinkowitz's collection are associated with the Mexican prints collective Taller de Gráfica Popular.

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly • 03/14/24 5:40pm

While volunteering at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in 2009, JoAnn Pinkowitz was struck by the institution’s “Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints,” an exhibition celebrating socially engaged printmakers like Diego Rivera, Leopoldo Méndez and Francisco Dosamantes.

https://observer.com/2024/03/met-gifted-300-revolutionary-mexican-prints-pinkowitz/

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