Artist Monograph

José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican

Mexican, 1852–1913

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Medium Breakdown

Medium Works at MoMA Share
Etching 127 50.6%
Printmaking 65 25.9%
Engraving 55 21.9%
Gouache 3 1.2%
Woodcut 1 0.4%

Production by Decade

48
0s
3
1870s
8
1880s
82
1890s
33
1900s
61
1910s
1
1920s
1
1930s
14
1940s

Physical Scale

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)18473.9%
Medium (30–100 cm)6526.1%

Range: 3.7 cm → 56.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquiredWorks
194225
19491
195429
19564
19571
196426
1965115
196711
196828
19693
19836
19951

Recurring Subjects & Themes

  • Men · 92
  • Women · 53
  • Skeletons · 32
  • Horses · 9
  • Profiles · 7
  • Death · 6
  • Firearms · 6
  • Suffering · 6
  • Soldiers · 5
  • Guitars · 5
  • Infants · 5
  • Boys · 5
  • Crowd · 5
  • Portraits · 5
  • Drinking · 4
  • Angels · 4
  • Animals · 3
  • Dancing · 3
  • Bulls · 3
  • Virgin Mary · 3

Mexican Contemporaries

  1. 159 Leopoldo Méndez
  2. 94 Diego Rivera
  3. 79 José Luis Cuevas
  4. 76 Rufino Tamayo
  5. 66 Alfredo Zalce