Single-page folded exhibition program issued for the Exposición de Artes Plásticas held in Santiago de Cuba in January 1939 in conjunction with the First National Congress of Cuban Art. 8vo (5” x 8” folded), printed in black and ochre on cream stock, with text in Spanish. The pivotal exhibition brought together works from Cuba's principal schools of arts and crafts—Escuela Superior de Artes y Oficios “Fernando Aguado y Rico” in Havana and the Escuela Superior de Artes y Oficios de Oriente in Santiago—across painting, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, furniture, carving, leatherwork, and the applied arts at a formative moment in the nation's artistic development. A striking example of early Cuban modernist graphic design, employing asymmetrical typography, bold geometric rules, restrained two-color printing, and generous negative space in a composition reflecting contemporary European functionalism while anticipating the refined institutional graphics of postwar Cuba. Printed by La Propagandista S.A., Santiago de Cuba. Not located in OCLC/WorldCat. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. An exceptionally rare survival documenting one of the earliest national efforts to define modern Cuban artistic education and exhibition practice, distinguished equally by its historical importance and graphic sophistication.
Single-page folded exhibition program issued for the Exposición de Artes Plásticas held in Santiago de Cuba in January 1939 in conjunction with the First National Congress of Cuban Art. 8vo (5” x 8” folded), printed in black and ochre on cream stock, with text in Spanish. The pivotal exhibition brought together works from Cuba's principal schools of arts and crafts—Escuela Superior de Artes y Oficios “Fernando Aguado y Rico” in Havana and the Escuela Superior de Artes y Oficios de Oriente in Santiago—across painting, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, furniture, carving, leatherwork, and the applied arts at a formative moment in the nation's artistic development. A striking example of early Cuban modernist graphic design, employing asymmetrical typography, bold geometric rules, restrained two-color printing, and generous negative space in a composition reflecting contemporary European functionalism while anticipating the refined institutional graphics of postwar Cuba. Printed by La Propagandista S.A., Santiago de Cuba. Not located in OCLC/WorldCat. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. An exceptionally rare survival documenting one of the earliest national efforts to define modern Cuban artistic education and exhibition practice, distinguished equally by its historical importance and graphic sophistication.
