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In 1921 the
young French artist Jean Charlot, then working as a muralist in Mexico
City, encountered the broadsides of Jos
Guadalupe Posada. Posada had been dead since 1913, and though his
prints and broadsides were familiar to many Mexicans, Posada as a person
was largely forgotten. Charlot's pioneering article on Posada published
in 1925 in Revista de Revistas brought Posada to the attention of
the art world. Charlot's enthusiasm for Posada remained with him during
the course of a long and productive life, and resulted in the assembly
of an extensive personal collection of Posada's art.
After Charlot's death in 1978, a bequest was made establishing the Jean Charlot Collection, University of Hawaii Library. Charlot's Posada Collection forms an important component of the bequest. |
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Catalog entries
for the collection list: (1) Title in Spanish as it appears on the item
(2) English translation of title (3) Format (4) Technique of reproduction
(5) Size (6) Imprint (7) Artist, if noted on item.
The note on technique applies to the principal image. Often the complete illustration is a composite of engraving or etching, with additional decorations; often these supplementary decorations were produced from the printing blocks of a variety of artists other than Posada, and used over and over by the publisher. When Posada's printed signature appears on the item, it is so noted. Almost certainly some of the images in this collection are not Posada's. The prints are listed on the next page broadly arranged into the following Subject Categories . |
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