Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Adams, Marta
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content: Marta Adams Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-6, OV 7)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s-circa 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adammart, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Found here are Christmas card designs, mixed media collages, and sketches and illustrations by Marta Adams inlcuding a small watercolor "House and Tree." In addition, there are three engravings by Leopoldo Méndez, one engraving by Alfredo Zalce, one lithograph by José Clemente Orozco, one pencil sketch by Xavier Guerrero, and several unidentified sketches and prints by other artists. Also included are three limited editions of portfolios of lithographs, 30 Grabados de Galo Galecio,1946, containing 30 engraving prints by Galecio, Estampas de la Revolucion Mexicana, 1947, containing 85 engraving prints by 16 artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular, and Drawings: Seymour Swetzoff, 1949. Researchers may be interested to note that a file of "Self-Portraits by Friends" appears to be a compilation of self-portrait and caricature sketches with signatures requested as entrance to an unidentified exhibition, as a possible illustrated guestbook.