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Mexico prints from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams / [introduction, Edward J. Sullivan].

[New York, NY] : [The American Federation of Arts], [1998]

Williams, Reba -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.

Williams, Dave, 1932- -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.

Prints, Mexican -- Exhibitions.

Prints -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

108 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

As Latin American art scholar Edward J. Sullivan writes in his introduction to this exhibition catalogue, “Mexican artists have always had a special relationship to paper,” from the establishment of the first printing press in the Americas in 1537 in Mexico City; to the multi-generational influence of the Mexican School of printmaking; to the founding of the Taller de Gráfica Popular in 1937. Renowned modern art collectors Reba and Dave Williams (also scholars in their own right) acquired Diego Rivera’s Zapata lithograph in 1973. They went on to collect many more of Rivera’s print works, which the catalogue reproduces in both black-and-white and color. Scholar Reba Williams contributes an informative essay on the artist’s lithographs, as well as an essay discussing the relationship between printmaking and Muralism. Indeed, prints—just like murals—became an accessible and populist Mexican art form. Other essays provide details on the nearly 50 artists, some known and many unknown, in the Williams’ collection, including Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as on the history of the Mexican School of printmaking.

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