shaded sketch of a large eye; red block lettering in top and bottom eyelids: Exposicion Litografias; red block 20 in pupil; black and red text; buff colored paper

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Taller de Gráfica Popular: Exposición 20 Litografias, Galeria de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, 1939

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Francisco Dosamantes was a leading Mexican graphic artist, educator, and founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP), a historically important print collective that produced pamphlets, illustrations, and editioned prints in support of progressive social and political ideals. Dosamantes designed this now-iconic poster to announce the TGP’s first exhibition, which took place in 1939 at the National University of Mexico and featured twenty lithographs. The poster’s dramatic, surrealist-influenced “all-seeing eye” design is exceptional among TGP publications and stands as an important example of modernist Latin American graphic design.

Details
Title
Taller de Gráfica Popular: Exposición 20 Litografias, Galeria de Arte de la Universidad Nacional
Artist Life
1911 - 1986
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.34
Provenance
(Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, Ariz.); sold to MIA, 2018.
Catalogue Raisonne
Prignitz 37
Curator Approved

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shaded sketch of a large eye; red block lettering in top and bottom eyelids: Exposicion Litografias; red block 20 in pupil; black and red text; buff colored paper

© Francisco Dosamantes / Taller de Gráfica Popular

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