José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Stanford Curator of Latin Americana, Adan Griego writes, "Posada lived through the almost uninterrupted 30 years of the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship or porfiriato and his calavera images became the venue to satirize the excesses of Mexican bourgeois society. French artist Jean Charlot encountered Posada’s work while visiting Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in the 1920s and is credited with providing a wider audience for the satirical artist."
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http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2017/10/jose-guadalupe-posada-dia-de-muertos
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913). This broadsheet depicts the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe that surrounded by the leaves of the maguey agave. The bottom half of this broadsheet shows a sort of farewell hymn that pilgrims are supposed to chant while visiting and then leaving the church (Tierno despedimento que hacen los visitantes...).
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Colección de canciones modernas para año 1892.
Vanegas Arroyo typography released each year a songbook of modern songs. This songbook for the year 1892 depicts on its cover a character named Elena. This songbook is produced using the photo-relief and letterpress method. Printed in red and black on tan paper
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Cover for 'Las Torres Blancas', a group of people walking and looking up at two white towers (Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/738082).
Photo-relief and letterpress in red and black ink on tan paper.
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José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
A cover of a songbook for the year 1895. The cover shows an Asian woman who is holding a traditional fan (el abanico).
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
The cover of a songbook for the year 1894 depicts a lady who is dancing. Her name is printed as "Serpentina".
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Artist:José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Adios a Mexico 35 Colección de canciones modernas para 1895.
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José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Broadside shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete in a graveyard, apparently in the process of creating more skeletons--a crowd of skeletons surrounds him and skulls lie at his feet. The text block is decorated with four small skulls.
(Source: Library of Congress-https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.03450/)
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Photo-relief and letterpress on beige paper.
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (14.8 × 20 cm)
"Estos librillos, publicados en la imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, fueron escritos por Constancio S. Suárez e ilustrados por José Guadalupe Posada. Contenían historias de amor imposible, platónico, complicado o correspondido. El texto era sencillo y breve para atrapar a los lectores, quienes para conocer el desenlace de una historia tenían que comprar el siguiente número; una práctica común entre los editores."
Source: https://www.gob.mx/agn/articulos/coleccion-de-cartas-amorosas-la-representacion-del-amor-a-principios-del-siglo-xx?idiom=es
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Photo-relief and letterpress on off-white paper.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
The king and his three sons is a story that was illustrated by Posada.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Photo-relief and letterpress printed on beige/off-white paper
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Series: Galeria del teatro infantil.
A chapbook on natural ground wood paper: relief etching, with text in letterpress; 15.2 x 10.3 cm. (sheet).
Summary: Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man dressed in the costume of the Renaissance holds a rose. He reacts with surprise as he encounters a beast in a garden. The script concerns the travels of a Marquis who leaves his daughters at home. While on his trip he enters a desolate palace with a beautiful garden. He cuts a rose from the garden to find out that it is guarded by a beast. One of the Marquis' daughters comes to the garden to confront the beast. Part one ends here. (Source of description: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99615859/)
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Series: Galería del Teatro Infantil
Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm) - Posada, José Guadalupe, ca. 1880-1910.
A chapbook on natural ground wood paper: relief etching, with text in letterpress; 15.4 x 10.8 cm. (sheet).
Summary: Chapbook cover shows a scene from a play: a woman wearing a shawl makes amorous advances towards a bullfighter dressed in full regalia; a bullfighting stadium is in the background. The script concerns a love triangle between Luisa and two bullfighters, Luís and Roberto. (Source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99615861/)
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Series: Galeria del teatro infantil.
Medium: Photo-relief and letterpress in brown ink on tan paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (14.8 × 20 cm) .
(Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/737967)
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
A chapbook published using the letterpress on a beige paper.
A young man in uniform with cap raised and holding a flag, standing in a field with two dead soldiers. Apparently referring to the marines of Chapultepec?
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
A chapbook printed on a beige paper in red color.
Signed by Posada.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Shows Francisco I. Madero riding on the horse. With Zapata standing by his side holding the flag of Mexico. It belongs to the broadsheets category of Posada's print.
Francisco Madero rose to become the most popular contender to the presidency of Porfirio Díaz. As the 1910 elections drew near, Díaz imprisoned Madero and won re-election for his eighth term. Following the election Madero escaped from prison and fled to Texas where he plotted a revolution. In early 1911 he re-entered Mexico at Ciudad Juárez, took command of the revolutionary armies, and swiftly progressed in a grand march across Mexico. His triumphal entry into the capital was celebrated with vigorous exaltation.
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José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
The image to the left is the way Posada's workshop looked about 1899. It is one of two photo images we have of the artist. Posada is on the right and it is generally agreed that the young man is Posada's son Juan Sabino Posada Vela who died in 1900. In our search for Posada we now believe that we know the identity of the third person in the photo. In the image below we see historians Agustín Sánchez González and Helia Emma Bonilla Reyna in front of the workshop as it is today. It is about three blocks from Mexico City's zocolo.
Source: Posada Art Foundation, San Francisco.
https://curator-jgposada.blogspot.com/2013/02/searching-for-posada-his-workshop-on.html
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Author Funes, Ofelia A.
Title Catalogación de la obra de José Guadalupe Posada perteneciente al patrimonio del Museo Nacional del Grabado / Ofelia A. Funes, Inés Pérez Hiriart.
Published [Buenos Aires] : Dirección Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, Secretaría de Cultura, Presidencia de la Nación, [1999?]
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Title Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras / Duncan Tonatiuh.
Published New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2015.
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Editor's comments: " Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras--skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities--came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852-1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons, much to the amusement of the local population but not the politicians. He continued to draw cartoons throughout much of his life, but he is best known today for his calavera drawings. They have become synonymous with Mexico's Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival. Juxtaposing his own art with that of Lupe's, author Duncan Tonatiuh brings to light the remarkable life and work of a man whose art is beloved by many but whose name has remained in obscurity. The book includes an author's note, bibliography, glossary, and index."
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Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1850?-1917) ran a printing house that issued a series of small theatrical works which were put in his Galería de Teatro Infantil. Some of his publications were illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada. (Source: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4t1nb894/)
The editor is standing in the center between two individuals. Seating in the front row from the left to right are Concepción Vanegas Rubí, Carmen Rubí, and Julia Vanegas Rubí.
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Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, andanzas de un editor popular (1880-1901) By Jaddiel Díaz Frene, Ángel Cedeño Vanegas
José Guadalupe Posada : illustrator of chapbooks
Author: Mercurio López Casillas; José Guadalupe Posada
Publisher: Mexico City : Editorial RM, 2005.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
"The great cartoonist Posada lived through the Porfiriato years and brought a popular message to the mass of citizens who lived so miserably under the Díaz dictatorship. Although best-known for his Calavera images of whimsical skeletons, Posada lived through the early years of the Revolution and his hojas sueltas or broadsides captured much of the activity of the period: corridos to celebrate heroes and battles, or calaveras to satirize unpopular characters.
In this patriotic imagen tricolor, Posada brings back Independence to its true beginning, the 16th of September. Porfirio Diaz had merged independence celebrations with his own birthday on September 15th. Ironically, the Revolution did not do away with this Porfiriato tradition. To this day, Grito festivities, still take place on the eve of September the 16th (source: http://web.stanford.edu/~c0y0t8/celebratemexico/vivael16.html)
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Author: Frias, Heriberto, 1870-1925.
In 1900 the Maucci Brothers, a Spanish publisher, commissioned Posada to illustrate a series of pamphlets for children on the history of Mexico. The cover illustrations are probably the only mechanically produced chromolithographs that Posada ever did.
Chromolithograph on cover designed by José Guadalupe Posada. "Barcelona--Imp. de la Casa Editorial Maucci"--P. 16.
Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Writer: Frias, Heriberto, 1870-1925
Biblioteca Del Niño Mexicano, a series of patriotic tales and episodes by Heriberto Frias.
Chromolithograph on cover designed by José Guadalupe Posada. "Barcelona--Imp. de la Casa Editorial Maucci"--P. 16.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913).
Author: Frias, Heriberto, 1870-1925
Chromolithograph on cover designed by José Guadalupe Posada. "Barcelona--Imp. de la Casa Editorial Maucci"--P. 16.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Author: Frias, Heriberto, 1870-1925
Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano
Cortés, Hernán 1485-1547--Juvenile literature
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Juvenile literature
Emperor of Mexico Cuauhtemoc 1495?-1525--Juvenile literature
Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes fight their way out of Tenochtitlan at the heavy cost. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or “the Night of Sadness,” many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco when the vessel carrying them and Aztec treasures hoarded by CortÝs sank. Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor who had become merely a subject of Cortes in the previous year, was also killed during the struggle; by the Aztecs or the Spanish, it is not known.
Chromolithograph on cover designed by José Guadalupe Posada. "Barcelona--Imp. de la Casa Editorial Maucci"--P. 16.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Author: Frias, Heriberto, 1870-1925
Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano
Chromolithograph on cover designed by José Guadalupe Posada. "Barcelona--Imp. de la Casa Editorial Maucci"--P. 16.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Chromolithograph on cover designed by José Guadalupe Posada. "Barcelona--Imp. de la Casa Editorial Maucci"--P. 16.
Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano
Publishers: Maucci Hermanos .
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
This Posada print, "The León Flood," is the cover image for a collection of modern songs. Type-metal engraving. Signed.
Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm) - Posada, José Guadalupe, ca. 1880-1910.
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Artist: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)
Cancionero.
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This is the panel 1 of 3 that was created for this exhibition.
In the pantheon of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who represent Mexico and Mexican art, the artwork of José Guadalupe Posada stands out as a bright constellation that continues to shine the light on important stories through woodcuts, imprints, and engravings. He was born on February 2, 1852, in Aguascalientes.
Posada joined the publishing house of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in 1888 as an illustrator and engraver. There he met Manuel Alfonso Manilla (1830-95), and, until 1899, the two men shared engraving duties. They worked so closely together that some works are hard to attribute definitively to one artist or the other. Posada worked on images that appeared in newspapers and continued to create woodcut images, with subjects ranging from news to religion. Posada also used the imagery of skulls. The skull, or la Calavera, was adopted by the artist to illustrate the hybridity of Mexican culture. It is thought that Posada was responsible for images published in over fifty Mexico City-based periodicals, some of which are held by The Bancroft Library.
Posada illustrated many small booklets, typically less than twenty pages long and measuring roughly nine centimeters by twelve centimeters. These small publications are known in English as chapbooks; in Spanish, they are known as Cuadernos. The chapbooks covered a variety of subjects including recipes, short stories, songs, and plays. Front covers usually were illustrated with an image related to the content of the chapbook.
Between 1899 and 1901, Posada illustrated for the Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano series — Posada’s only series that appeared in full color. There were a total of 110 chapbook-sized booklets printed. The booklets, written by Heriberto Frías, tell the history of Mexico through short fablelike stories that include Moctezuma and Aztec society before the arrival of the Spanish; the Spanish conquest and the role of the Catholic Church; and the struggle for Mexican independence.
