ROW ONE Alfredo Zalce Title:"1886 1 de Mayo-1849 Gran Mitin..." Date: 1949 Medium: Line cut reproduction of a drawing in black with type in black and red. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 19.0" x 15.9" Sheet dimensions: 37.5" x 27.9" Prignitz number: 101 Reference:TGPpr, # 101, 319.
Description:A promotional poster for a May Day meeting of workers from various groups. In the image a group of workers stride over capitalists and war mongers carrying a banner declaring the "war against war."

Leopoldo Méndez Title: Homenaje a Benito Juárez Date: 1947 Medium: Line cut reproduction of ink drawing with type. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: Signature of Méndez reproduced at LR of drawing. Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 22.2" x 17.5" Sheet dimensions: 32.2" x 24.2" Prignitz number: 75 Reference:TGPpr, # 75, 317.TGPdoce, 18. LMasu, 38. LMdc, 200.
Description:A promotional poster for a CTM meeting in honor of Benito Juárez.The image is a striking portrait of the former president by Leopoldo Méndez. Pablo O'Higgins and/or Jules Heller recall seeing Méndez do the drawing and said it flowed from his brush so freely one would think the brush itself contained a memory of the face of Juárez. A remarkable portrait.

Andrea LL-Gómez, UR-Elizabeth Catlett, UL-Óscar Frías y LR-Mariana Yampolsky Title: Homenaje a Cárdenas Date: 1956 Medium: Four relief prints, presumably linoleum cuts, with type.
Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: UL block at LL "OSF" and LL block at LL "AndreaTGP." Paper/impression quality:Very good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: Each approximately 10.2" x 7.2" Sheet dimensions: 33.9" x 22.1" Prignitz number: 189 Reference:TGPpr, # 189, 328.
Description:A poster announcing a meeting honoring former president Lazaro Cárdenas. There are four relief prints by four different artists. One is a portrait, one speaks of his efforts to build schools, one looks at the expropriation of the oil industry and another shows a family with a portrait of Cárdenas on the wall of their home in a position of honor.

Alberto Beltrán y Fanny Rabel (Rabinowitz) Title: Israel
Date: 1951 Medium: Linoleum cut in yellow, blue, red-brown and black with type (some lettering probably cut in the brown or black linoleum blocks.) Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 34.7" x 23.6" Sheet dimensions: 36.9" x 26.6"
Prignitz number: 134 Reference:TGPpr, # 134, 323.TGPwom, 23. Description:A promotional poster for two conferences on Israel.The image shows happy people in a cultivated field with buildings in the background.

Pablo O'Higgins and Francisco Mora Title: IV Congresso de la CTAL Date: 1953 Medium: Linoleum cut in black and red with type in black. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 25.1" x 26.2" Sheet dimensions: 37.6" x 27.7" Prignitz number: 157 Reference:TGPpr, # 157, 325.TGPmus, 192. Description:A promotional poster for the fourth congress of the CTAL (the Confederation of Latin American Workers.) Image shows workers, including a miner in the foreground, leading a parade for peace and national independence, presumably for Chile, where the conference is being held.

ROW TWO Xavier Íñiguez Title: Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes de Cuernavaca Date: 1957 Medium: Linoleum cut in ochre and black with type in blue. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: In block at LR "Íñiguez-57." Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 19.7" x 23.6" Sheet dimensions: 27.7" x 37.6" Prignitz number: 200 Reference:TGPpr, # 200, 329.
Description:A promotional poster for the regional fine arts institute in Cuernavaca.The image shows a group of artists on scaffolding working on a grand mural on the life of Emiliano Zapata.An exceptional image with a very effective use of the second block.

Alfredo Zalce Title: La Risa del Pueblo. El Retorno del 'Automovil Gris' Date: 1939 Medium: Lithograph with type (large type, and possibly all type, probably drawn on, or transferred to, stone.) Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 12.7" x 21.6" Sheet dimensions: 15.9" x 22.1" Prignitz number: 31 Reference:TGPpr, #31, 312.TGP60, 37.TGPmus, 199. LMcms, #176A.TGPgdea, 86. Description:A poster warning of the dangers of the fascist spaniards who supress the rights of the people in the interest of changing the direction of Mexico towards fascism. The image shows a carload of specific individuals leaving the scene of an assault or a rape who are on the 'committee for public salvation,' clearly using a false nationalism to achieve their ends.

Alfredo Zalce Title: La URSS defiende las libertades del mundo. ¡Ayudémosla! Date: 1941 Medium:Two color lithograph with image in black and text in red. Edition: Reported to be 5,000 with 200 on better paper sold to defray printing costs. Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 17.2" x 22.5" Sheet dimensions: 18.4" x 26.7" Prignitz number: 49 Reference:TGPpr, # 49, 314.TGPdoce, 6,TGPmus, 186. Description:A dynamic poster supporting the USSR's struggle against fascism.The image shows an armed and determined soviet soldier in a charge.While the image was created in lithography, it looks more like a linocut. Only the stone marks at the top of the sheet give the technique of printmaking away.

ROW THREE Francisco Mora Title: Libertemos a los Presos Politicos Date: 1953
Medium: Linoleum cut with type, some lettering cut in the block. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: None
Paper/impression quality:Very good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 19.4" x 34.0"
Sheet dimensions: 26.5" x 36.8" rignitz number: 152 Reference:TGPpr, # 152, 324-325.TGPmus, 195. Description:A poster demanding freedom for political prisoners.The image shows a man standing in front of a banner gesturing towards the large text and/or pointing accusingly.

José Chávez Morado Title: "La Risa del Pueblo" Con su Música a otra parte.
Date: 1939 Medium: Lithograph with type (large type, and possibly all type, drawn on, and/or transferred to, stone.)
Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: In image at LR 'J' over an 'O.' Possibly "obra de José." Paper/impression quality: Good impression on lightweight litho poster paper. Image dimensions: 18.2" x 15.7" Sheet dimensions: 23.0" x 19.7" Prignitz number: 32 Reference:TGPpr, # 32, 312.TGPmus, 200. MPmmp, 219, 236. JCMgeg, 92. LMcms, #164A.
Description:A satrical poster depicting the influences of Spanish fascists on the Mexican press.A Spanish fascist blows the horn of the free press using"Ordorica y Co."as their mouth piece.A list of tainted papers appears on the side of the horn while words of fear and manipulation emanate from the horn.

Artist: Unknown Title: Las Semillas mejoradas del Maíz afirmarán tu Futuro Date: 1950 Medium: Linoleum cut with type Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 13.0" x 11.9" Sheet dimensions: 18.5" x 13.6" Prignitz number: 114 Reference:TGPpr, # 114, 320.TGPmus, 202. Description:A poster promoting the importance of selecting the best seed corn in order to insure superior crops in the future.The image shows a farmer peeling back a superior ear of corn with granaries in the background.

Attributed to:Alberto Beltrán (possibly with Leopoldo Méndez) Title: (Study for) Vida y Drama de México Date: 1957 Medium:Water based pigment on paper (black, white, ochre, red and gray.) Edition: Unique
Inscriptions/Annotations: On verso is the TGP single line stamp and "Archivo" in ink. Paper/impression quality: Good quality paper Image dimensions: 13.0" x 17.6" Sheet dimensions: 13.8" x 18.7"
Prignitz number: relates to 195 Reference: TGPpr, # 195 (related), 329. A related study (shown next screen ) is reproduced in a GermanTGP exhibition catalogue.A third study is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Description: A unique study for the previous poster, demonstrating the developmental process for each poster created by the TGP. Members would gather for group critiques with suggestions and eventual assignments. Again, the calavera portion of this drawing is strikingly similar to a portion of the Méndez linoleum cut created for the cover of the 1949 Calaveras Televisoras.The upper left portion is from the Alberto Beltrán linoleum cut "Los Colgados II". There is the single line stamp from the TGP on the verso with "Archivo" written in ink.