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August 2018
DekeThornton:
Hello poster friends! It's been quite a while since I've posted, though I've still been lurking.
Anyway, I finally scored one of my "unicorns" I had been keeping an eye out for several years.
"Mexico por la libertad", a 1942 Mexican WWII propaganda poster by the artist Jose Bribiesca.
A former forum member also posted one of these a couple years back. It wasn't for sale then (I asked). This is a different copy.
This isn't something I plan to put on the wall since the swastika is so prominent, but I do love the image of the Mexican eagle rending the Nazi flag:
DekeThornton:
Another WWII propaganda poster.
This one was produced for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to help keep Latin America on the side of the Allies.
The Museum of Modern Art in NY sponsored a poster contest, and this was the winning entry. Amazingly, I found this press release from 1942 on the MOMA website with all the details of the contest!
https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/831/releases/MOMA_1942_0073_1942-10-19_421019-67.pdf
DekeThornton:
And yet another published by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
The artwork is by Walter Beach Humphrey, a member of the New Rochelle artist colony that also included Norman Rockwell.
Interestingly, I have not found any other reference to this poster on the internet. Which is strange, because I can't imagine why it would be rarer than any of the other posters distributed by the OCIAA/OIAA.
Anyway, it is in my opinion a kick-ass poster!
The title is "El sueño de los héroes; La obra de sus hijos", which translates to "The dream of the heroes; The work of their children."
It shows the great historical liberators of the Americas including:
* George Washington (USA)
* Simón Bolívar (Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama)
* Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile)
* José de San Martín (Argentina, Chile, Peru)
* José Martí (Cuba)
* José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
* José Bonifácio de Andrada (Brazil)
* Francisco Morazán (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica)
* Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (Mexico)
* Toussaint L'Ouverture (Haiti)
okiehawker:
--- Quote from: DekeThornton on August 18, 2018, 02:59:04 AM ---And yet another published by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
The artwork is by Walter Beach Humphrey, a member of the New Rochelle artist colony that also included Norman Rockwell.
Interestingly, I have not found any other reference to this poster on the internet. Which is strange, because I can't imagine why it would be rarer than any of the other posters distributed by the OCIAA/OIAA.
Anyway, it is in my opinion a kick-ass poster!
The title is "El sueño de los héroes; La obra de sus hijos", which translates to "The dream of the heroes; The work of their children."
It shows the great historical liberators of the Americas including:
* George Washington (USA)
* Simón Bolívar (Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama)
* Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile)
* José de San Martín (Argentina, Chile, Peru)
* José Martí (Cuba)
* José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
* José Bonifácio de Andrada (Brazil)
* Francisco Morazán (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica)
* Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (Mexico)
* Toussaint L'Ouverture (Haiti)
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Hi Deke, It reminded me of many of the beautiful murals done for public buildings during the Great Depression here in the U.S. So, I looked up Humphrey and "mural" and it looks like your poster is from this mural: Patriotic Montage (1933-34) housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Here's the link https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/patriotic-montage-10944
My best
Okie
DekeThornton:
--- Quote from: okiehawker on August 18, 2018, 12:18:32 PM ---Hi Deke, It reminded me of many of the beautiful murals done for public buildings during the Great Depression here in the U.S. So, I looked up Humphrey and "mural" and it looks like your poster is from this mural: Patriotic Montage (1933-34) housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Here's the link https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/patriotic-montage-10944
My best
Okie
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Thanks for finding that, Okie! That is an important piece of the puzzle!
It is interesting that the Smithsonian gives a fairly wide ten-year range for the creation date of the painting ("ca. 1933-1943").
I am pretty sure the aircraft in the painting/poster is a B-24 Liberator which entered service in 1941.
So it seems almost certain the painting was created in the 1941-45 period.
I wonder if any alternate language poster versions were also published? Some of the OCIAA/OIAA posters were printed in Spanish only, but others also had variants in English and Portuguese.
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