Artist Monograph

Guillermo Meza, Mexican

Mexican, 1917–1997

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Drawing	2	11.8%
Lithography	2	11.8%
Screenprint	1	5.9%
Oil Painting	1	5.9%

Production by Decade

1

0s

2

1940s

1

1950s

12

1960s

1

1970s

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 12
Drawing — 3
Print — 2

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	17	100%

Range: 33.3 cm → 65.4 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1942	1
1944	1
1954	1
1965	12
1974	1
1978	1

Mexican Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 17 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Inside a Café Drawing Acc. 742.1978	n.d.	Oil on paper	18 1/8 x 15 1/8" (46.0 x 38.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Edgar B. Howard
Giantess Drawing Acc. 740.1942	1941	Ink and pencil on paper	25 5/8 x 19 7/8" (65.2 x 50.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
Polyphemus Drawing Acc. 144.1944	1941	Ink on paper	19 3/4 x 25 3/4" (55.6 x 39.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund
STUDY Print Acc. 125.1954	1952	Lithograph, printed in black on green paper	Sheet 26 x 19 15/16" (66.2 x 50.7 cm) Comp. 14 3/16 x 10 1/4" (36.1 x 25.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund
IMPRESIONES: Impresiones Subjetivas sobre el Libro Sagrado de los Antiguos Mayas. Chilam Balem de Chumayel Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.1-11	1962	11 lithographs, printed in color	page 17 7/8 x 13 11/16" (45 x 34.8 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund
Plate 1 (folio 6) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.1	1962		irreg. composition 13 1/8 x 9 3/4" (33.3 x 24.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 10 (folio 24) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.10	1962		irreg. composition 14 3/16 x 9" (36.1 x 22.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 11 (folio 26) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.11	1962		irreg. composition 11 11/16 x 16 5/16" (29.7 x 41.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 2 (folio 8) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.2	1962		irreg. composition 12 3/16 x 16 9/16" (30.9 x 42.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 3 (folio 10) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.3	1962		irreg. composition 11 5/16 x 16 5/16" (28.7 x 41.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 4 (folio 12) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.4	1962		irreg. composition 15 7/8 x 10 9/16" (40.4 x 26.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 5 (folio 14) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.5	1962		irreg. composition 16 1/8 x 11 7/8" (41 x 30.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 6 (folio 16) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.6	1962		irreg. composition 16 7/16 x 11 3/8" (41.8 x 28.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 7 (folio 18) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.7	1962		irreg. composition 14 9/16 x 12" (37 x 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 8 (folio 20) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.8	1962		irreg. composition 12 1/4 x 16 5/8" (31.2 x 42.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Plate 9 (folio 22) from IMPRESIONES Illustrated Book Acc. 77.1965.9	1962		irreg. composition 14 11/16 x 5 5/8" (37.3 x 14.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Leda from AGPA 73: Pan American Graphic Arts (AGPA 73: Artes gráficas panamericanas) Print Acc. 366.1974.30	1973	Lithograph from a portfolio of 11 screenprints (one with embossing), seven etchings (three with aquatint, one with embossing), six lithographs (one with etching), five linoleum cuts (one with embossing), one engraving, and one intaglio with embossing	composition (irreg.): 25 9/16 × 16 9/16" (65 × 42 cm); sheet: 30 1/16 × 22" (76.4 × 55.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Cartón y Papel de México, S. A.