
Mexico in San Francisco
Works on Paper from Diego Rivera to Alejandro Santiago
September 15 - December 8, 2017
This exhibition was comprised of 42 diverse works on paper by fifteen artists from ten San Francisco Bay Area collections that are executed in a variety of mediums. It included art by several Mexican-born masters who played a central role in creating and defining modernist Mexican art, including Diego Rivera (1886-1957), José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1872-1946), Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991), and Leopoldo Méndez (1902-1969). It also features several stellar expatriate artists: the Guatemalan native Carlos Mérida (1891-1985), the English born Surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), and the Spanish born Surrealist Remedios Varo (1908-1963).
Mexico in San Francisco from Bay Area Private Collections also included many works by José Luis Cuevas (1934-2017), who was a central figure in the “break” (ruptura) with the “Mexican School” that was dominated by the Mexican Muralists. The exhibition included as well artists as varied as the idiosyncratic and phenomenally talented Francisco Toledo (b. 1940), and the tragically short-lived Alejandro Santiago (1964-2013), who like Toledo, hailed from Oaxaca.

Cantina, circa 1937. Gouache, watercolor and ink on paper, 18.75 x 22 in. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Untitled. Gouache on paper, 43 x 40.5cm. Courtesy of Emily Marcus

Zapata, 1932. Lithograph, 41.4 x 33.6cm. Courtesy of Private Collection

Untitled, 2006. Oil and amate laid on canvas,150 x 120 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Flower Festival, 1925. Pencil on paper, 33 x 48.5 cm. Courtesy of Andy and Pamela Brown

Dance of the Old Men of Michoacan, circa 1923. Gouache on paper, 30.5 x 24cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Boy with Taco, 1932. Lithograph, 43 x 32 cm. Courtesy of private collector

Foreshortened Woman, circa 1931. Ink on paper, 48.26 x 66.04 cm. Courtesy of Michael Wornick

Cosecha de Eden, 1936. Watercolor, 35 x 25.5 cm. Courtesy of Emily Marcus

Female Nude, 1937. India Ink on paper, 55.25 x 37.5 cm. Courtesy of Michael Wornick

Untitled, 1993. Mix Medium on amate laid on canvas, 150 x 120 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Auto retrato Com José Gómez Sicre, Police Station New York, 1968. Mix medium on paper, 68 x 99 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Heaven Earth Hell, 1991. Cochenille on amate,120 x 81cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Toad with Grasshopper, circa 1980. Mix medium on paper, 21 x 30cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Serie Secrets from the Valt Hotel Mission, 1982. Watercolor and ink on paper, 26 x 26 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery

Bird with Serpent, circa 1980. Watercolor with pen and ink on paper, 13.4 x 21 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery