MS 2009-18 Miguel Covarrubias posters
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2009-18
name: label: Creator
content: Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957
label: Names
content: Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)
place: label: Place
content: Pacific Ocean
creator: label: Creator
content: Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. In the 1920s and 1930s, his artwork and caricatures were frequently featured on the covers of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

In 1938 Covarrubias was invited to paint a series of murals for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in San Francisco. He provided "Pageant of the Pacific," six illustrated maps depicting different aspects of the Pacific Rim. Each panel presents a different theme: peoples, fauna and flora, art forms, economy, dwellings, and means of transportation.  The murals were popular at the GGIE and were later exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Upon returning to San Francisco, five of the murals were installed at the World Trade Club in the Ferry Building where they hung until 2001.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Posters (color lithographs, framed, 38 x 25 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940
container: label: Container
content: Item 1
label: Container
content: Item 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The posters were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Michael A. Etnier in 2009.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2009-18
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Posters
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of two (2) poster reproductions of Pageant of the Pacific murals by Miguel Covarrubias.  The collection includes "Art Forms of the Pacific Area," depicting examples of indigneous art and "Peoples of the Pacific," depicting indigenous peoples of the Pacific Rim.  The posters were printed by H. S. Crocker Co., Inc , and Schwabacher-Frey Co. and published by Pacific House, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco in 1940.

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