Existing comment:
Max E. Garcia
born Uruapan, Mexico 1941;
died Sacramento, California 2020
Luis C. González
born Mexico City, Mexico 1953
The Last Papa with the Big Potatoe (October), from Calendario de Comida 1976
1975
screenprint on paper
Many Chicano artists grew up surrounded by illustrated calendars hanging in their homes. Given as gifts by local stores, these signs commonly portray scenes of Mexican indigenous myths. Artists adopted this format as an art form through which they could explore daily life and history. The print displayed here, as well as the twelve other images viewable on the screen at left, come from a 1976 calendar produced by twelve collaborating artists. Titled Calendario de Comida (food calendar), the calendar set hailed Chicano foodways, commemorated historic eateries like La Victoria Bakery in San Francisco, and, as in the print seen here, humorously acknowledged how the poor rely on food stamps during hard times.
Gift of the Margaret Terrazas Santos Collection, 2019.52.46 |