Mexican printmakers’ work sees the light - Philadelphia Museum of Art - Pennsylvania

“Mexican art looms large at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, although for visitors this art is normally like an iceberg - mostly below the horizon. One needs an eagle eye to notice the iceberg’s tip in the Great Stair Hall, two portable frescoes by Diego Rivera. Sugar Cane and Liberation of the Peon hang on either side of the baronial stairway to the second floor.

Much of the rest of the Mexican collection consists of prints, including a number by Rivera and two equally celebrated colleagues in the Mexican mural movement, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Rufino Tamayo, primarily an easel painter and sculptor, is also represented in depth.”

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