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Portfolio Cover for Méndez: 25 Prints https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186725/

The 1945 limited-edition portfolio, Méndez: 25 Printsfor which Carl Schniewind, then the Art Institute’s curator of prints and drawings, wrote the introduction features a selection of Méndez’s book illustrations for Melodic Incidents of the Irrational World. For its dramatic cover, the artist reprised the book’s jaguar motif. Designed primarily for American collectors, the portfolio images were plucked from their original narrative context and printed on fine paper. With this marketing strategy, the Taller de Gráfica Popular aimed to appeal to international audiences by focusing on the powerful graphic qualities of the prints rather than their political messages.
Melodic Incidents of the Irrational World, featuring wood engravings and scratchboard prints by Méndez, won the best illustrated book award at Mexico City’s Fourth Book Fair in 1946, and the volume was a bestseller for the Taller de Gráfica Popular’s publishing arm, La Estampa Mexicana. Cabada’s story is an allegory of popular revolution told through the lens of traditional Mayan legends. It tells the tale of a snail-woman songstress and her squirrel husband, who are deceived by a vulture dressed unmistakably in capitalist top hat and suit coat. When the bird’s deeds are discovered, he meets his end through popular justice. Although Méndez rarely took up Pre-Columbian imagery, he drew here on ancient sources, such as the snake figure reminiscent of Mesoamerican codices, while inflecting them with a modern sensibility. The book design deftly intertwines Méndez’s sinuous images with verse, Maya-Quiché folk songs and their Spanish translations, and musical notation in a rhythmic dance appropriate to the story’s musical theme.
Español:El portafolio de edición limitada de 1945, Méndez: 25 Prints, para el cual Carl Schniewind entonces curador de grabados y dibujos del Art Institute escribió la introducción, contiene una selección de las ilustraciones realizadas por Méndez para el libro Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional. En la dramática portada, el artista retoma el motivo del tigre que aparece en el libro. Destinadas principalmente para coleccionistas estadounidenses, las imágenes del portafolio fueron aisladas de su contexto narrativo original e impresas en papel fino. A través de esta estrategia de venta, el Taller de Gráfica Popular procuraba llamar la atención de un público internacional enfocándose en las poderosas cualidades gráficas de los grabados más que en su mensaje político.
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, con grabados en madera de pie e ilustraciones esgrafiadas de Méndez, ganó el premio para el mejor libro ilustrado en la 4a Feria del Libro de la Ciudad de México en 1946, y constituyó un éxito de venta para el brazo editorial del Taller de Gráfica Popular, La Estampa Mexicana. El cuento de Cabada es una alegoría de la revolución popular contada a través del prisma de las leyendas tradicionales mayas. Cuenta la historia de la cantante doña Caracol y de su esposo, el señor Ardilla, quienes son engañados por don Zopilote, ataviado con los inconfundibles signos capitalistas: el sombrero de copa alta y un saco elegante. Cuando se descubre su engaño, el pajarraco termina siendo ajusticiado por el pueblo. Aunque Méndez rara vez incorporó imágenes precolombinas, aquí recurre a símbolos antiguos, tales como la figura de la serpiente, reminiscente de los códices mesoamericanos, pero marcadas por una sensibilidad moderna. El diseño del libro entreteje diestramente las sinuosas imágenes de Méndez con el verso, las canciones tradicionales mayas-quiché y sus traducciones al español, y las anotaciones musicales en una danza rítmica apropiada para el tema musical de la narración.

Gift of Carl O. Schniewind

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Remains of the so-called Temple of Apollo at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64542/

Clarence Buckingham Collection

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Baron Moïse Begging, from Au Pied du Sinaï https://www.artic.edu/artworks/134560/

Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection

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The Love of Jupiter and Semele (third plate), from Les Métamorphoses https://www.artic.edu/artworks/157767/

Given in memory of A. Peter Dewey

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Homage to Molière https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47215/

Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection

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Cosmicstrip IV, from Cosmicstrip series https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159877/

Gift of Allan Frumkin

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Head of Boy Wearing Hat in Profile https://www.artic.edu/artworks/82365/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Untitled, from Lines (Op. líneas) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/230931/

Margaret Fisher Fund

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Sketches of Child Praying, Two Male Profiles (recto); Sketches of Male Heads (verso) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/112817/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Ocean and Rocks https://www.artic.edu/artworks/65963/

In 1917 Marin painted some of the most abstract watercolors of his career, influenced in part by an exhibition that year of Georgia O’Keeffe’s watercolors of simplified natural forms. In this and related works, the artist developed a nontraditional technique: he manipulated charcoal with a rag, which he rubbed and wiped through a semidry charcoal wash. Painting a mixture of powdered charcoal and dilute black watercolor over pale washes, he wiped horizontal and circular marks to suggest rock formations. The charcoal particles in the wash clumped as the wash dried, leaving a gritty pattern as they settled into the valleys of the textured paper. Marin’s choice of a stepped frame enhances the dynamism of water washing across rocks.

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

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Untitled (Black Cap) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248664/

Promised gift of The William S. Wilson Collection of Ray Johnson

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Nude Warriors Fighting https://www.artic.edu/artworks/85670/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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The Wonder of Assirea 310 B.C. (recto); Untitled (verso) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113878/

The source of this subject is not certain. Knowing of Yoakum's circus experiences it is possible that the artist modeled the "Wonder of Assirea" after a performer whom he knew or had seen. Whatever the source, Yoakum drew no fewer than four versions of this subject, all of which are documented in Whitney Halstead's archive of slides made from Yoakum's drawings.

Bequest of Whitney Halstead

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Head of Neptune https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83491/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Three Trees, Georgia https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94042/

Gift of Ivan Albright

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The Lobster, from Histoire naturelle https://www.artic.edu/artworks/128350/

Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund

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Luce Myrès, in Profile https://www.artic.edu/artworks/35792/

The Charles F. Glore Collection

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Cover for Au pied du Sinaï https://www.artic.edu/artworks/134558/

Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection

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Program for La Lépreuse https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13576/

Loewenthal Collection

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Angel Appearing to Hagar in the Wilderness https://www.artic.edu/artworks/85911/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Statue on Lawn in Epsom https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86124/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Holiday in Camp—Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158339/

Gift of Arthur and Hilda Wenig

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The Dance on the River Bank https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23688/

John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection

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River with Arched Bridge and Boat https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83959/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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Roundel with Justice and Prudence https://www.artic.edu/artworks/84032/

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection