Federico Cantú Garza 1907-1989 . Dentro de las festividades de su XXX Aniversario Luctuoso

Metamorfosis, vida y obra – Federico Cantú

70 Años del Salón de la Plástica Mexicana 

El Salón de la Plástica Mexicana presenta la exposición homenaje 

A Federico Cantú Garza 1907-1989 dentro de las festividades de su

 XXX Aniversario , dicha muestra se lleva a cabo el mes de Enero del 2019

l proyecto presenta la búsqueda de la Mexicanidad , dentro del legado de un artista que transitó en la Escuela de Paris , la Escuela al Aire libre y que junto con los grandes de la época , fue maestro fundador de la Esmeralda y el Salón de la Plástica 

La muestra presenta la evolución del arte surgida en el Paris del XIX y que culmina con la creación de un lenguaje plástico nacionalista , en ella encontramos a manera de dialogo obra de Félix Parra , Alfredo Ramos Martínez , Ferdinand Barbedienne,  Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Tamiji Kitagawa y el legado Ukiyo-E y su impacto en el impresionismo que trascendió y tomo una lectura nacionalista bajo la escuela al aire libre, toda una universalidad que dará forma a el legado de Federico Cantú Garza.

 Metamorfosis, vida y obra – Federico Cantú

Esta muestra está compuesta por 

Obra de caballete , proyecto mural  escultura , 

cuadernos de trabajo y proyecto mural 

Y se Presenta en la sala IV del Salón de la Plástica Mexicana 

A partir del 29 de Enero del 2019

Coleccion de Arte  Cantú Y de Teresa

Coleccion Museo Casa Estudio Federico y Elsa

Federico Cantú Garza 1907-1989

XXX Aniversario

Enero 1989-2019

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Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

Feliz Navidad Y Prometedor  2019

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019

Jouyeux Noel et Bonne Année  2019

Federico Cantú 1907-1989

Ángeles músicos – buril 1954

Between 1927–1934 Orozco lived in the USA. Even after the fall of the stock market in 1929, his works were still in demand. From March to June 1930, at the invitation of the Pomona College Art Department, he painted what he noted was the "first fresco painted outside the country by a painter of the Contemporary Mexican School."The fresco, Prometheus (Prometeo del Pomona College), on the wall of a Pomona College dining hall, was direct and personal at a time when murals were expected to be decorous and decorative, and has been called the first "modern" fresco in the United States.[8] Later that year, he painted murals at the New School for Social Research, New York City, now known as the New School University. One of his most famous murals is The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. It was painted between 1932 and 1934 and covers almost 300 m² (3200 square feet) in 24 panels. Its parts include: "Migrations", "Human Sacrifices", "The Appearance of Quetzalcoatl", "Corn Culture", "Anglo-America", "Hispano-America", "Science" and "Modern Migration of the Spirit" (another version of "Christ Destroys His Cross").
After returning to Mexico in 1935, Orozco painted in Guadalajara, Jalisco, the mural "The People and Its Leaders" in the Government Palace, and the frescos for the Hospicio Cabañas, which are considered his masterpiece. In 1940 he painted at the Gabino Ortiz Library in Jiquilpan, Michoacán. Between 1942–1944 Orozco painted for the Hospital de Jesús in Mexico City. Orozco's 1948 "Juárez Reborn" huge portrait-mural was one of his last works.

In 1947, Orozco illustrated the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck.

Orozco died in 1949 in Mexico City.

Our Art collection Cantú Y de Teresa includes historical documents, books and photographs that describe one of the most important episodes in the history of art

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Exposición colectiva La infancia en el arte.

jueves 8 de noviembre 19:30  

próximo jueves 8 de noviembre en punto de las 19:30 h en el Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Colima 196, col. Roma para la inauguración de la muestra, exposición colectiva La infancia en el arte.

Mediante una selección de obras de los Maestros fundadores del Salón  , esta muestra acerca al publico al inicio de la producción pictórica de los artistas que formaran parte de la Escuela Mexicana 

Telar – Federico Cantú 1907-1989

Tinta para la ilustración del libro dedicado a la vida del Pípila , escrito por el Doctor MacKinley Helm

Esta obra nos permite, admirar la capacidad creadora del artista , donde en su narrativa enmarca al el “Pípila” como ayudante de telar en sus andanzas de niño inquieto , dentro de una intemporalidad Federico nos adentra a el detalle arquitectónico , mostrándonos a manera de nicho, una escena de nuestra rica mexicanidad 

La Colección de Arte Cantu y de Teresa , se suma a el esfuerzo de nuestra nueva Secretaria de Cultura por dejar ésta y muchas grandes exposiciones, como primer paso para la nueva administración

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Cristo llorado por los Ángeles

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En muchas de las entrevista que sostuvo Federico con la prensa en diferentes exposiciones dedicadas a la obra grafica, reiteraba que el inicio de su obra en placa de grabado había empezado en Paris ( 1924-1924), observando el trabajo de los orfebres franceses, por ello es equivoco creer afirmar que su trabajo lo inicio mediados de a los años 40s. También sabemos que el artista narra como abandono gran parte de su trabajo en Paris y que le fue imposible recuperarlo , sin embargo en 2014

apareció en una subasta en Paris un cuaderno de trabajo que daba testimonio no solo de la obra grafica de la época , también incluía mas de un centenar de tintas y bocetos que se incluirían en diferentes temas de caballete y escultura , sumamos a esta “Carpeta Dorian” quizá la única publicación sobreviviente de lo que algún dia fuera “ Alma Femenina” 1929 L.A.  ( revista impresa en Los Ángeles California bajo la tutela de Loreley) y en donde Federico incluye otra obra grafica.

El tema de Cristo Llorado por los Ángeles

Federico no esta ajeno de cada uno de los pasajes bíblicos y mucho menos dejo de estar atento a cada una de las obras trascedentes que marcaron la historia del arte universal , por ello Federico  es un devoto de los grandes maestros del arte italiano como, Andrea Mantegna , Giovanni Bellini, Donatello, Antonello de Messina, Carlo Crivelli , ambos todos conocedores del tema.

Federico aborda este tema en dos versiones graficas  quizá buscando dos intenciones expresivas tanto en el trazo del los ángeles como en el de Cristo Muerto sostenido por ambos , la que fuera segunda versión que muestra trazos mas finos fue la que seria incluida en una de las carpetas múltiples de los hechos de Jesús .

Sin ir  mas lejos esta versión daba inicio a manera de ampliación monumental,  la exposición homenaje que en el palacio de las Bellas Artes tuviera a bien mostrar Cantú en 1970

Con este tema La Colección de Arte Cantú Y de Teresa  recuerda este año el dia de muertos.

A passion for Mexican modernism: The Lewin Family Collection

- Christies 2017-

Masterworks from the personal collection of Bernard Lewin, a pioneer in the market for Mexican art, are offered in the Latin American Art sales on 22 & 23 November

For generations, the Lewin family of Palm Springs, California, has been passionately dedicated to the study, promotion and collecting of Latin American art. Their legacy began in 1954 when Bernard Lewin (1906-2003) saw his first painting by Mexican modernist Rufino Tamayo. From that chance encounter, Lewin went on to amass one of the largest personal collections of Mexican modernism in the United States and to introduce countless individuals to the artists he so loved through his eponymous galleries in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs. 

Lewin arrived in California in 1938 after fleeing Nazi Germany with his wife Edith (1911-1999) and their four-year-old son and only child Ralph. He began making a living for his family by moving furniture before moving on to buying and selling estates and eventually opening his own furniture store. 

Slowly he began to notice not only the furniture but also the fine art collections of his clients and was inspired to learn more. Determined to meet some of the artists he had come to admire and better familiarise himself with their work, Lewin made his first trip to Mexico in 1958. He visited the studio of  Federico Cantú and bought some Engravings , cavas and asks the artist to design the logo of the Gallery, also visit Diego Rivera and bought some of the deceased artist’s sketchbooks from the 1930s.

Fascinated by Mexican art, Lewin eventually gave up the furniture business and established his art gallery in 1968 in Beverly Hills, where he championed the work of such luminaries as Rufino Tamayo, Federico Cantú, Ricardo Martinez, Alfredo Ramos Marinez, Jesús Guerrero Galvan Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Carlos Mérida, Francisco Zúñiga and many others now offered for sale at Christie’s.

LACMA The Lewin Family Collection  mexican-mural-study-federico-cantú

Federico Cantú

Colección de Arte F Cantú F & Elsa E de Cantú

Fede mi hijo 1929-2013

Los Ángeles California 1 de mayo de 1929

Ciudad de México 31 de mayo de 2013

El 13 de abril de 1929 Federico Cantú envía una carta a su entonces amigo y cuñado  Alfonso Fabila , la carta incluye una tinta alusiva a la figura de Ícaro , elemento que utilizara para la obra titulada Homenaje a Lord Byron , unos días depuse el 1 de mayo de 1929 nace el hijo de Federico Y Luz ( en california ) y es registrado con el nombre de ICARO

Federico Cantú 1907-1989

Federico Cantú Fabila

Los Ángeles California 1 de Mayo de1929

Tlalpan Ciudad de México 31 de Mayo de 2013

STENDAHL GALLERIES
Founded, 1911

The two-house compound where author April lives on an avenue in the Hollywood Hills has been home to her husband's family business, Stendahl Galleries, since 1940. For twenty years prior, Earl L. Stendahl provided the finest examples of Impressionist and Modern art to the elite of Los Angeles collectors from his renowned galleries on Wilshire Boulevard. Stendahl was lured to the Hollywood neighborhood by collector Walter Arensberg, who, with Stendahl's help, amassed what was called by an art historian in 1950 "the most discriminating single group of twentieth century paintings and sculpture in existence."
Such was Stendahl's influence on the Southern California landscape, which began in 1911 and lasted well beyond his passing in 1966, when son Alfred Stendahl and son-in-law Joseph Dammann (already veteran dealers) carried on the business. Few remember that in 1939 Stendahl hosted one of only two non-museum exhibitions of Pablo Picasso's masterwork, Guernica, to benefit Spanish refugees. That historic showing was one of many pioneering efforts by Stendahl Galleries to bring important artworks to the attention of a public hungry for exposure to fine art.

Earl L. Stendahl was born in Menomonie, Wisconsin of Norwegian descent to a large family of confectioners. In San Diego, California, Stendahl began selling the works of local painters and opened his first gallery at the inauguration of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1921. Stendahl emerged as one of the most innovative and influential art dealers in Southern California. By the 1930s, the gallerist had established his reputation as the premier dealer in painters of the California Impressionist School. William Wendt, Guy Rose, Edgar Payne, Joseph Kleitsch and Nicolai Fechin were part of the early Stendahl stable of artists. Moving to larger quarters on Wilshire Boulevard, Stendahl introduced Modern art to the West Coast with works by Matisse, Chagall, Klee, Feitelson, Siqueiros, Cantú, Kandinsky, Braque and Picasso. In 1939 his gallery was one of only two non-museum venues in the U.S. to exhibit Pablo Picasso's masterwork, Guernica as a fundraiser for Spanish war orphans.
As early as 1935, Stendahl began promoting ancient artifacts from Mexico and Central America before branching out to become a significant dealer of the Pre-Columbian art of his day. Stendahl's son, Alfred E. Stendahl and son-in-law, Joseph Dammann, joined the family business. The gallery's archives were donated to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in 1976.The Stendahl Gallery continues to operate, celebrating its centennial in 2011, with Earl Stendahl's grandson, Ronald W. 

Dammann, presiding

Spring is one of the four conventional temperate seasons, following winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it will be autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. At the spring equinox, days are approximately 12

 hours long with day length increasing as the season progresses. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. Subtropical and tropical areas have climates better described in terms of other seasons, e.g. dry or wet, monsoonal or cyclonic. Often, cultures have locally defined names for seasons which have little equivalence to the terms originating in Europe.

Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomas Sancta or Hebdomas Maior, "Greater Week"; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas, "Holy and Great Week") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. In the West, it is also the last week of Lent, and includes Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday. It does not include Easter Sunday, although traditions observing the Easter Triduum may overlap or displace part of Holy Week or Easter itself within that additional liturgical period.

La Madona en la obra de Federico Cantú 1907-1989

Una larga y fructífera evolución de formas en torno a la Madona

Grabado , obra mural , tinta , escultura , relieves …………

Dan forma a uno de los símbolos mas importantes de la estética Mexicana

Es Cantú uno de los mas grandes maestros que logra en su obra la síntesis 

Sacra y profana , Europea y mesoamericana , una fusión de identidad 

Prehispánica y Occidental fundidas a la para en una amalgama cultural

 En estas composiciones nos solo admiramos el estilo propio del maestro

de paso las imágenes cohabitan en la intemporalidad donde se extiende la creación Cantú

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New York Times archive - Federico Cantú

New York Times archive.

February 08, 1938 - By EDWARD ALDEN JEWELL - Print Headline: "SHOW REPRESENTS MEXICAN ARTISTS; Work of Fifteen Painters of Present Day on View at the Valentine Gallery"

Siqueiros, Julio Castellanos and Dr. Atl, although much less familiar than the first three named, are not newcomers here, but Federico Cantu, Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma, Guerrero Galvan, Augustin Lazo, Roberto

May 21, 1939 - - Print Headline: "OPENINGS OF THE WEEK"

Associated American Artists Gallery (May 23-June 12). Brabazon, Hercules--Water-colors. Knoedler Galleries (May 22-June 3). Cantu, Federico--Recent oils. Charles Morgan Gallery. (May 22-June 10). Dix,

May 28, 1939,

AMERICAN artists to the number of thirty-six are repre sented in the eleventh annual exhibition of the American Print Makers, current (till June 12) at the galleries of Associated American Artists. Informal in operation, this organization has no officers, but Anne Goldthwaite, one of the twelve founders, acts as chairman.

January 28, 1940,

new exhibitors in -- the galleries-Ar bit Blatas, born in Lithuania, whose paintings are at the French Art Gallery, and Federico Cantu, of Mexican birth, whose oils and drawings may be seen at the Charles Morgan Gal

April 11, 1943 - By EDWARD ALDEN JEWELLE.A.J - Print Headline: "BIG NEW GROUP EXHIBITIONS; The International Water-Color Show at the Brooklyn Museum -- 'Arizona Plan' at the Metropolitan -- Annual by Women"

which, the appeal of some of the water-colors by IViariano, and of Amer-. Pelaez is not to be denied. It seems to me that Federico Cantu and Guillerrno rather than Rivera, Orozco and 1Vferida, enliven the 1V[ group

April 16, 1944 - By HOWARD DEVREE - Print Headline: "NEW GROUP SHOWS ARE VARIED"

and several small and adept wood figures by Ellen Key-Oberg. The Artists' Gallery is showing drawings by Hans Boehler, Federico Cantu, Maurice Golubov, Joseph and Louis Monza, and etchings and lithographs by Charles

November 10, 1946 - By H.R. HAYS - Print Headline: "People of San Rafael"

Mackinley Helm is no exception.People of San Rafael By H.R. HAYS A MATTER OF LOVE. By Mackinicy Helm. Decorations . by Federico Cantu. 251 pp. New York: Harper Ec Bros. s2.50. tales of a provincial city of the