Costumes (Match Portfolios), 1950-1979
Scope and Contents
Group of 11 color postcards of people wearing regional costumes of Mexico.
Márquez completely controlled the content and composition of his portraits. The persons described as "typical" appear to be professional models, and not people dressed in their own clothes. In fact, he literally dressed the models in costumes that he himself collected. Twelve of these regional traditional dresses appear in a series of postcards and a portfolio edited by Manuel Quesada Bradi: TRAJES REGIONALES MEXICANOS DE LA COLECCION DE LUIS MARQUEZ (Cuernavaca: Ediciones Singulares, 1970).
Source:
Luis Márquez: Mexican Folklore ∓ History in 20th Century Art Postcards. https://susanfrost.org/postcards-of-luis-marquez
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1979
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Full Extent
11 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: Spanish; Castilian
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the The Wittliff Collections Repository
