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  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Processing History
  • Preferred Citation
  • Publication Rights
  • Access
  • Arrangement
  • Biographical/Historical Note
  • Aquisition Information
  • Bibliography

  • Contributing Institution: Special Collections
    Title: Francisco Valença papers
    Creator: Valença, F. (Francisco), 1882-1962
    Creator: Leal da Câmara, Tomás, 1876-1948
    Creator: Monterroso, Manuel
    Identifier/Call Number: 970071
    Physical Description: 13.25 Linear Feet (12 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1895-1963
    Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record  for this collection. Click here for the access policy .
    Abstract: The Francisco Valença papers contain the work of the acclaimed Portuguese caricaturist who was most active between 1905 and 1958. Contents of the collection include letters received, unpublished manuscripts, original caricatures and comics, drawings and studies, printed matter and personal documents of Valença. Correspondence comprises letters from Portuguese intellectuals, politicians and modernist artist's groups. Manuscripts include a bibliography, records of artwork and writings on other artists. His artwork consists mostly of original pen and ink caricatures.
    Language of Material: Collection material is in Portuguese.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The collection contains the substantial correspondence, manuscripts and caricatures that span Valença's fruitful and politically active career. His correspondence is comprised of 500 letters received from correspondents such as Manuel Aníbal da Costa Monterroso, Tomás Júlio Leal da Câmara and Artur Ernesto Santa Cruz de Magalhães, as well as other artists, poets, journalists, editors and museum directors for whom he worked. The letters represented in the collection offer an extensive overview of the artist's network in times of political change and press censorship.
    Manuscript material in the collection includes unpublished manuscripts by Valença such as commentaries on his own life and work, manuscripts on the work of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, a manuscript on the early modernist group Group d'Aguia, and unpublished issues of the satiric journals O Garonga and Pcht!.
    Original caricatures by Valença include 1200 mostly pen and ink sketches (some colored), 300 smaller pencil sketches, and 11 watercolor studies done in the studio of José Malhôa. Printed material designed by Valença such as menus, theater programs and posters are also included. The caricatures reflect the epic political shifts that occured during Valença's professional career documenting the governments of Don Carlos and Salazar as well as the events of the times, World War I, World War II and the period of Fascism.

    Processing History

    Inventory was completed by Anna Krüger under the supervision of Laura Schroffel in 2013.

    Preferred Citation

    Francisco Valença papers, 1895-1963, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 970071
    http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa970071

    Publication Rights

    Access

    Open for use by qualified researchers.

    Arrangement

    Arranged in three series:
    Series I. Correspondence, 1900-1962;
    Series II. Manuscript materials, 1897-1963;
    Series III. Artwork, 1895-1958.

    Biographical/Historical Note

    Francisco de Paula Valença (Calino) (1882-1962), was born in Lisbon and is best known for his caricature drawings and his work as a publisher and draftsman. He is considered the most important Portuguese caricaturist of his time. He attended courses at the Sociedade Nacional de Bellas Artes in Lisbon in 1902 to 1903 and subsequently he worked at the studio of José Malôha. Valença founded several popular satirical newspapers including O Chinelo, Varões Assinalados (which was published during the revolutionary atmosphere of the New Republic in 1909), Salão Cómico and O Moscardo. Valença frequently collaborated with Carlos Simões, André Brun and other popular humor writers from the same period.
    Valença's caricatures were regularly published in Portuguese journals, reviews and newspapers, especially those he helped to found, but his work was also published and appreciated internationally, such as in Rire and Boletin Fermé. Valença also had a large oeuvre of work published in books including the Catálogos Cómicos (1914-1919 and 1923-1924) at the annual exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon and many others.
    In 1912 he assimilated with Pró Patria - Grupo de Propaganda e de Educação Civica and also became a member of the Sociedade de Humoristas Portugueses, a group of political and anticlerical artists. Valença's most fruitful period of productivity was from 1926 to 1958 and is well represented by his collaboration with Sempre Fixe and his drafts for the Museu Etnológico Dr. Leite Vasconcelos.

    Aquisition Information

    Acquired in 1997.

    Bibliography

    The following books were consulted in the writing of this finding aid:Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. Exposição Lisboa na obra de Francisco Valença. Lisboa: 1962. Tannock, Michael. Portuguese 20th Century Artists. A Biographical Dictionary. Chichester: Phillimore & Co LTD, 1978. Wilhelmi, Christoph. Künstlerguppen in West- und Nordeuropa einschliesslich Spanien und Portugal seit 1900. Ein Handbuch. Stuttgart: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., Verlag, 2006. Pamplona, Fernando de. Dicionário de Pintores e Escultores Portugueses ou que Trabalharam em Portugal. Barcelos: Companhia Editora do Minho, S.A., 1988.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Letters (correspondence)
    Manuscripts
    Caricatures and cartoons -- Portugal
    Ink drawings
    Artists -- Correspondence
    Political Satire -- Periodicals
    Pinheiro, Rafael Bordalo, 1846-1905
    Magalhães, Cruz