Taller de Gráfica prints and posters
Abstract
The Taller de Gráfica Popular (known as TGP) was founded 1937 by the talented Mexican artists Leopoldo Méndez, Luis Arenal, and Pablo O'Higgins. The TGP became the first self-supporting art workshop in Mexico to create and publish their own work. Their work had a variety of objectives; some overtly political, some comic, and some artistic.
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Catalog Record
Collection Information
- Uniform Title:
- Latin American prints and posters collection.
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Graphic Arts Collection.
- Printer:
- Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Publication / Origin:
- 1850 – 1999.
- Abstract:
- The Taller de Gráfica Popular (known as TGP) was founded 1937 by the talented Mexican artists Leopoldo Méndez, Luis Arenal, and Pablo O'Higgins. The TGP became the first self-supporting art workshop in Mexico to create and publish their own work. Their work had a variety of objectives; some overtly political, some comic, and some artistic. The Princeton University Library has collected TGP prints by Alberto Beltrán, José Chávez Morado, Francisco Mora, Rufino Tamayo, and Alfredo Zalce.
- Language of material:
- English
- Box listing:
- box 1. Various small prints and a portfolio commemorating the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico -- box 2. COSO by Carmen Perez -- map drawer A8. Cuban posters, Days of Solidarity posters, Puerto Rican posters, Casa del Libro exhibition posters, 17th century views of Veracruz and Mexico City, and oversize prints.
- Subjects:
- Delano, Irene, 1919- — Posters.
- Maldonado, Antonio — Posters.
- Martorell, Antonio, 1919- — Posters.
- Tufiño, Rafael, 1922- — Posters.
- Casa del Libro — San Juan, P.R. — Posters.
- Political posters, Latin American.
- Slavery in art.
- Solidarity — Posters.
- Cuba — Posters.
- Mexico City (Mexico) — Pictorial works.
- Puerto Rico — Posters.
- Medium / Genre:
- Political posters.
