ROW ONE Artist: Unknown Title: Los Poderosos del Cielo Date: Uncertain, 1953 or 1970 - probably 1970 Medium: Linoleum cut in black. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: In block at LL "TGP." Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on lighter weight poster paper. Image dimensions: 21.9" x 14.6" Sheet dimensions: 23.7" x 15.9" Prignitz number:Apparently not listed in Prignitz. Reference: None known. Description:A promotional poster for a theater performance.All of the text appears to have been cut in the block.The abstract image has vorticist qualities suggestive of a early date but such an image would probably not have been acceptable to the TGP critique group before 1960.Additionally the lettering work is a bit sloppy,suggesting a later date. A perpetual calendar suggests the year 1970 for a performance on Saturday, July 11th. Prignitz records no posters after 1966.

Ángel Bracho Title: ¡No Olvidemos! Date: 1953 Medium: Linoleum cut with lettering cut in the block. Edition: Unknown
Inscriptions/Annotations: At LR in block "TGP" Paper/impression quality:Very good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 18.1" x 18.2" Sheet dimensions: 36.9" x 26.6" Prignitz number: 151 Reference:TGP, # 151, 324.TGP40 29.TGPmus, 198.
Description: A poster beseeching the viewer to not forget the Rosenbergs, who will be assassinated by the "governor of war." This is the second such poster (see the previous listing) and is far less forceful than the first.

Francisco Mora Title: No Puedes Sembrar sin Semilla Date: 1950 Medium: Linoleum cut with type. Edition: Unknown
Inscriptions/Annotations: At LR in block "Mora." Paper/impression quality:Very good impression on pale green tinted poster paper.
Image dimensions: 13.0" x 11.8" Sheet dimensions: 18.7" x 13.6" Prignitz number: 111
Reference:TGPpr, # 111, 320. Description:A smaller poster speaking of the difficulties of planting crops and how to avoid crop failures.The image depicts a farmer looking out over a poor crop.

Leopoldo Méndez Title: Luchamos en el mismo Frente Date: 1941 Medium: Lithograph in black and red with type in black and red from a color roll. Edition: Reported to be 5,000 with 200 on better paper sold to defray printing costs. Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 26.6" x 24.2" Sheet dimensions: 35.2" x 25.1" Prignitz number: 48 Reference:TGPpr,, # 48, 77, 314. LMcms, #218A.
Description:A large promotional poster for the first national convention of friends of the USSR.The image presents an armed soviet soldier with his hand extended in friendship. The printing is unusual.The image is a lithograph printed on two sheets printed seper- ately and later joined. Both were apparently printed with a color roll.The lettering (only on the lower sheet) was probably transferred to the stone to be printed at the same time as the lower lithograph. It is uncommon to find this poster intact.

ROW TWO Adolfo Mexiac Title: 1952 CTM 1958: Mentener Intangebile el Derecho de Huelga Date: 1958 Medium:Three color linoleum cut in black, red and green with lettering cut in block. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: In block at LL "TGP." Paper/impression quality: Good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 21.6" x 24.6" (with side lettering: 21.6" x 29.5") Sheet dimensions: 23.7" x 31.8" Prignitz number: 207 Reference:TGPpr, # 207, 330. Description:A CTM poster that speaks of the need to maintain the right of workers to strike.The image shows a worker with a hardhat and a Mexican flag to the left with a portrait (politician?) in red to the right.

Leopoldo Méndez Title: Mariscal S.Timoshenko sus Triunfos son los Nuestros Date: 1942 Medium: Lithograph in black with lettering, probably from another stone, in red. Edition: Reported to be 5,000 with 200 on better paper sold to defray printing costs.
Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality:Very good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 17.2" x 25.6"
Sheet dimensions: 18.3" x 26.8" Prignitz number: 50a
Reference:TGPpr, #50a, 314.TGPdoce, 6,TGPmus, 190. LMdc, 171 (variant.) LMeog, #73, 104, 174.
Description: A poster in praise of the soviet commander at Stalingrad, Marshal Timoshenko.The image depicts a very dignified portrait of the reknown Soviet leader with lettering in red to the left.This is the first of three variations of this poster. See the next listing for the third variation.

Leopoldo Méndez Title: Los Tranviarios Luchan en Beneficio de todo el Pueblo (Top center image is titled
Wallstreet in TGPdoce.) Date: 1943 Medium:Three linoleum cuts (two in two colors) with type in two colors. Edition: Unknown Inscriptions/Annotations: None Paper/impression quality: Excellent impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions:Top 15.4" x 12.6" LL 6.4" x 10.0" LR 6.3" x 10.0" Sheet dimensions: 25.1" x 34.3" Prignitz number: 57
Reference:TGPpr, # 57, 315.TGPdoce, 17(center image).TGPelmm, 21(center image). LMmma, #7, 47(center image.) LMapl, 65 (lower left image.), 68 (center image), 71 (lower right image.) LMcm, 85. LMcms, #168A. LMeog, #77, 108, 174 (center image.) LMadm, 58 (center image). Description:A large poster in support of street car/tram workers pointing out their needs and the capitalist exploitation of the system for profit to the exclusion of caring for the workers.The top center image shows a capitalist (Méndez's title for this print is Monopoly) swallowing money.The LL image shows the hands of workers who only need a small raise.The image at LR speaks of 4,000 homes without bread.

ROW THREE Attributed to:Alberto Beltrán (possibly with Leopoldo Méndez) Title: (Study for) Vida y Drama de México Date: 1957 Medium:Water based pigment on paper (black, white, ochre, red and gray.) Edition: Unique
Inscriptions/Annotations: On verso is the TGP single line stamp and "Archivo" in ink. Paper/impression quality: Good quality paper Image dimensions: 13.0" x 17.6" Sheet dimensions: 13.8" x 18.7"
Prignitz number: relates to 195 Reference: TGPpr, # 195 (related), 329. A related study (shown below the image of the study in the collection) is reproduced in a GermanTGP exhibition catalogue.A third study is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Description: A unique study for the previous poster, demonstrating the developmental process for each poster created by the TGP. Members would gather for group critiques with suggestions and eventual assignments. Again, the calavera portion of this drawing is strikingly similar to a portion of the Méndez linoleum cut created for the cover of the 1949 Calaveras Televisoras.The upper left portion is from the Alberto Beltrán linoleum cut "Los Colgados II". There is the single line stamp from the TGP on the verso with "Archivo" written in ink.

Leopoldo Méndez (listed as anonomyous in Prignitz and attributed to Escobedo, Mexiac and Méndez in MPegc.) Title: ¡Paremos la agresión a la clase obrera! Date: 1950 Medium: Linoleum cut with type. Some lettering carved into the block. Edition: Unknown
Inscriptions/Annotations: LL-"TGP"
Paper/impression quality:Very good impression on typical poster paper. Image dimensions: 23.2" x 35.0" Sheet dimensions: 27.6" x 37.5"
Prignitz number: 123 Reference:TGPpr, # 123, 321.TGP40 29,TGP60, 34.TGPuam, cover.TGPmus, 33, 48. MPegc, 61-62, up. LMdc, 217. LMcm, 76. LMcms, #172A.TGPgdea, 29.TGPadm, 59. Description: A powerful poster pleading to "stop aggression against the working class" with a specific reference to miners in several areas.The image shows a miner holding a banner with the title of the poster on it protecting a mother and child by fending off a rifle with a bayonet attached. Reproduced in many references as the work of Méndez.