Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910 – 1960 Supported by The
Monument Trust and the Mexico Tourism Board 22 October 2009 – 5
April 2010 The exhibition will be the first in Europe focusing
on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the
twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1920 the country was
convulsed by the first socialist revolution, from which emerged
a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a
vehicle for promoting the values of the revolution. This led to
a pioneering programme to cover the walls of public buildings
with vast murals, and later to setting up print workshops to
produce works for mass distribution and education. All the
prints in the exhibition come from the British Museum’s
collection which has been acquired thanks to the generosity of
the Aldama Foundation, Dave and Reba Williams and The Art Fund.
Some of the finest of these prints were produced by the three
great men of Mexican art of the period known as ‘los tres
grandes’: Diego Rivera, José Cle