Catalog issued for the twenty-fifth annual Salón de Bellas Artes, documenting the breadth of Cuban painting and sculpture at a pivotal moment in the nation's artistic development. Among the artists represented are Servando Cabrera Moreno, Antonio Rodríguez Morey, Esteban Valderrama, Fernando Tarazona, Enrique Caravia, Carlos Sobrino, Armando Maribona, and Domingo Ramos. Also included is Felicindo Iglesias Acevedo, who would be represented the following year in the Museum of Modern Art’s Modern Cuban Painters exhibition. 8vo (6.75” x 7.5”), pictorial wrappers, 32 pages, b/w illustrations throughout.
A handsome example of pre-Revolution Cuban exhibition design, the catalogue combines an elegant Art Deco-inflected cover, restrained modern typography, and well-balanced interior layouts with a remarkably complete checklist of more than two hundred exhibited works, accompanied by illustrations and period commercial advertisements. Contemporary pencil annotations and the manuscript names "Elena Acosta" and "Margot Pery Rodríguez" suggest active use by a visitor or participant, preserving a small but meaningful layer of the catalog's original life. Beyond recording individual artists, it preserves an unusually comprehensive snapshot of the official Salon system and the diversity of Cuban artistic production immediately before international attention turned toward Havana's modern school.
Not located in OCLC/WorldCat. Having been folded in half previously, light impressions remain. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities; contemporary annotations as noted. An exceptionally scarce and visually engaging document of Cuban exhibition history..
Catalog issued for the twenty-fifth annual Salón de Bellas Artes, documenting the breadth of Cuban painting and sculpture at a pivotal moment in the nation's artistic development. Among the artists represented are Servando Cabrera Moreno, Antonio Rodríguez Morey, Esteban Valderrama, Fernando Tarazona, Enrique Caravia, Carlos Sobrino, Armando Maribona, and Domingo Ramos. Also included is Felicindo Iglesias Acevedo, who would be represented the following year in the Museum of Modern Art’s Modern Cuban Painters exhibition. 8vo (6.75” x 7.5”), pictorial wrappers, 32 pages, b/w illustrations throughout.
A handsome example of pre-Revolution Cuban exhibition design, the catalogue combines an elegant Art Deco-inflected cover, restrained modern typography, and well-balanced interior layouts with a remarkably complete checklist of more than two hundred exhibited works, accompanied by illustrations and period commercial advertisements. Contemporary pencil annotations and the manuscript names "Elena Acosta" and "Margot Pery Rodríguez" suggest active use by a visitor or participant, preserving a small but meaningful layer of the catalog's original life. Beyond recording individual artists, it preserves an unusually comprehensive snapshot of the official Salon system and the diversity of Cuban artistic production immediately before international attention turned toward Havana's modern school.
Not located in OCLC/WorldCat. Having been folded in half previously, light impressions remain. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities; contemporary annotations as noted. An exceptionally scarce and visually engaging document of Cuban exhibition history..
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