Treasures of The Mexican Museum
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.
Untitled, 1927. Watercolor, 33x27cm. Courtesy of Private Collection
Untitled, 2006. Oil and amate laid on canvas,150 x 20cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery
Blue Grasshopper, circa 1984. Watercolor on paper, 25.75 x 35.25 cm. Courtesy Bond Latin Gallery
Mi Tia, 1969. Pastel with pen and ink on paper, 76 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Benjamin Fernandez
Zona Roja de Acapulco Prostituta 1, 1972. Ink on paper, 30 x 24 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery
Meridional, 1995. Mixograph, 46 x105 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery
Woman with Bird, 1978. Graphite colored pencil, pen and ink on paper, 46-x 61cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery
Centura, 1959. Mix Media on card, 21 x 15 cm. Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Aguilar
Untitled, 1978. Medium Petroplatic on amate mounted on board, 51 x 34 cm. Courtesy of Emily Marcus
Shells, circa late 1940. Gouache on paper. 25.5 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy of Adriana Williams
Portrait of Rosa Rolanda, circa late 1940s. 15.25 x 11.5 cm. Courtesy of Adriana Williams
Untitled, 1949. Linoleum cut, 14.28 x 41cm. Courtesy of Maximilian Mc Donald
Boatman, 1939. Gouache on paper. 20 x 30 cm. Courtesy of Private Collector
Revolutionary, 1917. Pastel on paper, 58.5 x 57 cm. Courtesy of Private Collector
Sleeping Children, 1932. Lithograph, 42 x 30 cm. Courtesy of private collector
Mujer Mexicana, 1929. Lithograph, 35.5 x 24.7 cm. Courtesy of Bond Latin Gallery