Finding aid for the David Alfaro Siqueiros papers, 1921-1991, bulk 1930-1936
Annette Leddy
Descriptive Summary
Title: David Alfaro Siqueiros papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1991 (bulk 1930-1936)
Number: 960094
Creator/Collector:
Siqueiros, David
Alfaro
Physical Description:
2.11 Linear Feet
(6 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: A leading member of the Mexican
muralist movement and a technical innovator of fresco and wall painting. The collection
consists almost entirely of manuscripts, some in many drafts, others fragmentary, the bulk
of which date from the mid-1930s, when Siqueiros traveled to Los Angeles, New York, Buenos
Aires, and Montevideo, returning intermittently to Mexico City. A significant portion of the
papers concerns Siqueiros's public disputes with Diego Rivera; there are manifestos against
Rivera, eye-witness accounts of their public debate, and newspaper coverage of the
controversy. There is also material regarding the murals América Tropical,
Mexico Actual and Ejercicio Plastico, including one drawing
and a few photographs. The Experimental Workshop in New York City is also
documented.
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Language: Collection material is in Spanish; Castilian and English
Biographical/Historical Note
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a leading member of the Mexican muralist movement and a
technical innovator of fresco and wall painting. His ideological differences with Diego
Rivera attracted much attention in the 1930s.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
David Alfaro Siqueiros papers,1921-1991, bulk 1930-1936, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles, Accession no. 960094.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa960094
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1996.
Processing History
Processed and described by Annette Leddy; revised in 2012.
Scope and Content of Collection
The David Alfaro Siqueiros Papers contain one rare serial from 1921 Spain, and otherwise
consist almost entirely of manuscripts, some in many drafts, others fragmentary, the bulk of
which date from the mid-1930s, when Siqueiros traveled to Los Angeles, New York, Buenos
Aires and Montevideo, returning intermittently to Mexico City. Often he gathered teams of
artists to work with him on creating murals and developing new techniques and implements for
mural painting. Marxist theory as interpreted by the Communist Party guided Siqueiros in
these artistic endeavors, and the collection contains a number of manifestos demonstrating
how he integrated art and ideology in the organization of his workshops, in his theory of
Mexican muralism, and in his painting. A significant portion of the papers concern
Siqueiros's public disputes with Rivera; there are manifestos against Rivera, eye-witness
accounts of their public debate, and newspaper coverage of the controversy. There is also
material regarding the murals
America Tropical,
Mexico Actual,
and
Ejercicio Plastico, including one drawing and a few photographs. The
Experimental Workshop in New York City is also documented.
These papers were entrusted to, and partly created by, Bolivian artist Roberto Berdecio,
Siqueiros's assistant and friend, who kept them for about 40 years. Unless otherwise noted,
materials in the archive are by Siqueiros. Where the date of an undated manuscript is
reasonably certain, it has been included in the first four series; where the date is not
known, the manuscripts have been included in Series V. Miscellaneous. Due to the challenges
of dating this material, where a date is written on the item, it is included on the
inventory even if it repeats the date of the grouping under which it is cataloged.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized in 5 series:
Series I. Spain/Mexico, 1210-1991;
Series II. Los Angeles, 1932,
undated;
Series III. South
America, 1933;
Series IV. New
York, 1934-1977, undated;
Series V. Miscellanous and fragmentary manuscripts, undated.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Siqueiros, David Alfaro
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
Berdecio,
Roberto
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
John Reed Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subjects - Topics
Communism and art -- Mexico
Mural painting and decoration -- California -- Los Angeles
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican
Painting -- Technique
Genres and Forms of Material
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Contributors
Siqueiros, David
Alfaro
Berdecio,
Roberto
Series I.
Spain/Mexico,
1921-1991, undated
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear
Feet
(2 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains manuscripts and printed material from Siqueiros's time in Mexico,
which alternated chronologically with periods in the United States, Europe, and South
America. It includes writings by and about Siqueiros for lectures and exhibits and about
the Siqueiros - Diego Rivera controversy (1934-1935), along with drafts of
artistic/political manifestos, a few photographs and a woodblock print.
Arrangement
Arranged in rough chronolgical order, with materials on a given topic grouped
together.
box 1, folder 1
Spain:
Vida-Americana ,
1921
Physical Description:
0 Linear
Feet
1 item
Scope and Content Note
One item from Siqueiros's first extended stay in Europe. Issue edited by Siqueiros,
with work by Siqueiros and Rivera.
Arrangement
One item only.
Prison and Taxco,
1930-31
box 1, folder 2-3
Handwritten fragment of manifesto written from Penitenciaría del
Districto Federal,
Aug 1930
box 1, folder 4
Unknown photographer, 2 copies of photograph of Siqueiros with Blanca Luz
Brum(?), Taxco,
1930
box 1, folder 5
Photograph of a Siqueiros painting done in Taxco,
1930
box 1, folder 6
1 woodcut done in prison by Siqueiros,
1931
Scope and Content Note
printed preface in Spanish and English by William Spratling to
13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros, Taxco.
Siqueiros exhibition at Casino Espanol,
1932, undated
box 1, folder 11-12
Texts about Siqueiros's work,
1932
Scope and Content Note
Brief passages by international group of artists and critics acclaiming
Siqueiros's work, published as catalog for Siqueiros exhibition at Casino Espanol,
Mexico, 1932.
box 1, folder 13
Manuscripts about Siqueiros by Anita Brenner,
undated
Scope and Content Note
"Siqueiros's Work is the Aesthetic Revelation of the Greatest Importance in the
Artistic Movement of Mexico," 4 pp. typewritten manuscript 2 copies; "Siqueiros:
Fundador del Renacimiento Mexicano," 2 typewritten pp.
box 1, folder 14
Printed material for Siqueiros exhibit, 1932
Scope and Content Note
Printed catalog and lecture announcement for Siqueiros exhibition at Casino
Espanol, Mexico.
Writings on Rivera by Siqueiros,
1930-1935, undated
box 1, folder 15
Commentary on Rivera,
1930
Scope and Content Note
11 fragmentary typewritten and handwritten pp.
box 1, folder 17-18
"Rivera by Siqueiros,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pages.
box 1, folder 19
"El itinerario contrarrevolucionario de Rivera,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pages.
box 1, folder 20
"El Itinerario Oportunista de Rivera,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 corrected typewritten p.
box 1, folder 16
Writings about Diego Rivera and Mexican mural painting,
undated
Scope and Content Note
12 handwritten pages, not entirely consecutive, perhaps for
New Masses article?
box 1, folder 21
"Rivera's History" by Siqueiros,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 pp.
box 1, folder 22
New Masses,
29 May 1934
Scope and Content Note
issue containing Siqueiros's "Rivera's Counter Revolutionary Road."
box 1, folder 23
"Que Rivera No Rehuye La Controversia" by Siqueiros,
undated
Scope and Content Note
6 pp.
box 1, folder 24
"Rivera No Debe Rehuir La Controversia" by Siqueiros,
undated
Scope and Content Note
6 pp.
box 1, folder 25
"Lo Essencial de mi Controversia con Rivera, a traves de Diez
Conferencias Suyas,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. fragment.
box 1, folder 26
Accord of the plastic arts session of the L.E.A.R. for the editing of the
manifesto on the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy,
1935
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten page, signed.
box 1, folder 32
Handwritten notes on Rivera-Siqueiros controversy, by
Siqueiros,
undated
box 1, folder 33
Notes on Rivera partly handwritten by Siqueiros and partly
dictated,
undated
Writings by Roberto Berdecio on the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy,
1935, undated
box 1, folder 27
Outline of the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten page
box 1, folder 28-29
Handwritten notes regarding the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy,
undated
box 1, folder 30-31
Notes regarding Rivera controversy by Berdecio,
1935
box 1, folder 35
Notes on one day of the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy, Mexico,
Aug 1935
box 1, folder 36
Resolution of the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy, typewritten, taken by
Roberto Berdecio as secretary of acts,
Sep 1935
Writings by Diego Rivera on the Rivera Siqueiros controversy,
1935, undated
box 1, folder 34
Statement regarding Rivera-Siqueiros controversy, by Rivera,
undated
box 1, folder 37
"Raices Politicas y Motivos Personales del la Controversia
Siqueiros-Rivera,"
1935
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of article by Rivera, Imprenta Mundial, Mexico, 1935.
Press clippings about the Rivera-Siqueiros controversy,
1935-1952
box 1, folder 38
Clippings from three Mexican newspapers about the Rivera-Siqueiros
debate,
29 Aug 1935
box 1, folder 39
"Battle of the Century,"
1935
Scope and Content Note
article by Emanuel Eisenberg printed in
New Masses,
10 Dec 1935.
box 1, folder 40
"Respuesta de Alfaro Siqueiros y Diego Rivera a la Crítica del Partido
Comunista,"
1952
Scope and Content Note
from
Teoria, No. 33, 2 copies.
Assorted,
1932-1991, undated
box 1, folder 7
Typewritten letter from Gabriel Garcia Maroto,
undated
Scope and Content Note
regarding his proposed book on Mexican painting.
box 1, folder 8
Typewritten questionaire regarding contemporary Mexican
painting,
undated
Scope and Content Note
with handwritten responses by Siqueiros.
box 1, folder 9-10
"Manifesto de Intelectuales de Vanguardia,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
typewritten, signed by Revueltas, Villaurrutia, Siqueiros.
box 2, folder 1
"Primer Congreso de Escritores Revolucionarios Dictamen de la Comision de
Accion Social del Escritor Revolucionario,"
1934
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pages.
box 2, folder 2
El Plan Sexenal de Gobierno del Partido Nacional
Revolucionario
, by Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexico,
1934
Scope and Content Note
Pamphlet with Siqueiros's annotations.
box 2, folder 3
Notes regarding art and politics by Siqueiros,
undated
box 2, folder 4
"Primer Congreso Nacional de Frente Unico Contra El Fachismo y La Guerra
Imperialista,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
Several typewritten versions of this talk by Siqueiros. With additional material,
such as Statement of Resolutions.
box 2, folder 5
Typewritten passage beginning "Portrait of America..,."
undated
box 2, folder 6
"Militantes y no diletantes,"
undated
box 2, folder 7
"Conferencia sobre pintura Mexicana" by Siqueiros, Mexico,
Feb 1935
box 2, folder 8
3 page manuscript regarding "Conferencia sobre pintura
Mexicana,"
1935?
Scope and Content Note
regarding lecture in folder 7.
box 2, folder 9
"Hacia la Transformacion de las Artes Plasticas," New York,
June 1934
box 2, folder 10
"Llamamiento y Temario para la Asamblea Nacional de Productores de Artes
Plasticas,"
23 Jan 1936
Scope and Content Note
printed pamphlet.
box 2, folder 11
"La Revolución Técnica en la Plástica,"
1935
Scope and Content Note
by Siqueiros, printed in
Reforma Social, 1935.
box 2, folder 12
"David Alfaro Siqueiros,"
1935
Scope and Content Note
article by Guillermo Rivas printed in
Mexican Life,
Dec. 1935.
box 2, folder 13
Photograph and postcard of Siqueiros with Juan Olaguíbel (author of the
sculpture "Diana, la Cazadora"),
1935
box 5, folder 9
Letter from Paris,
1937
Scope and Content Note
2 handwritten pp.
box 2, folder 14
Program for the opening of exhibition of Siqueiros's "Cuauhtemoc Contra
El Mito," at Centro de Arte Realista Moderno,
1944
box 2, folder 15
List of works shown at the Exposicion Siqueiros en el Palacio de Bellas
Artes,
Dec 1947
box 2, folder 16
Arte Publico,
Feb 1953
Scope and Content Note
issue by and about Siqueiros and muralism.
box 2, folder 17
Siqueiros postcard from Moscow to Frente Nacional de Artes
Plásticas,
1956
box 2, folder 18
Arte Publico,
Jan 1956
Scope and Content Note
issue consisting of Open Letter to Soviet painters, sculptors, and printers.
box 5, folder 10
Mitin Conmemorativo, printed,
1957
box 2, folder 19
Nueva Presencia,
Dec 1961
Scope and Content Note
No. 3, Dec. 29, 1961, issue celebrating Siqueiros's 65th birthday.
box 2, folder 20
Siqueiros, by Antonio Rodriguez, Fondo de
Cultura Economica,
1974
box 2, folder 21
Catalog for Siqueiros's exhibition at Palacio de Bellas Artes,
Mexico,
1975
Scope and Content Note
2 copies.
box 2, folder 22
"Polémica por un Mural Erótico de Siqueiros," from
Excelsior,
May 1991
box 2, folder 23
"El Retorno a la Arquitectura,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 drafts of typewritten manuscript fragment.
box 2, folder 24
"Lista de Expositores del FNAP en la Galeria del MCDI,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
petition of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plasticas with various signatures.
box 2, folder 25
Photograph of Siqueiros,
undated
Series II.
Los Angeles,
1932, undated
Physical Description:
0.46 Linear
Feet
(1 box, 1 enclosure)
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts and printed material for lectures and writings during Siqueiros's stay in
the Los Angeles area. Some material relates to his murals
America
Tropical
and
Mexico Actual.
Arrangement
Arranged in rough chronological order and grouped by topic, where possible.
box 3, folder 31
"El Fermento Pictórico de México, Agita Los Angeles Actualmente," clipping
from Mexican newspaper,
1932
Scope and Content Note
About Siqueiros show at the Stendahl gallery.
box 3, folder 23
Commentary by Professor J. Tarbotton Armstrong on the Chouinard School mural,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p. manuscript.
Siqueiros lecture to John Reed Club,
1932
Scope and Content Note
Numerous typewritten and annotated versions.
box 2, folder 31-34
"Los Vehículos de la Pintura Dialéctico-Suversiva"/"The Vehicles of
Dialectic, Subversive Painting"
Scope and Content Note
typewritten manuscript with notes
box 3, folder 1-15
"Hacia los Vehículos de la Plástica Revolucionaria"
Scope and Content Note
lecture to John Reed Club.
box 2, folder 26
Pencil sketch of "America Tropical,"
undated
box 3, folder 18
"Siqueiros Fresco Unveiled Sunday Night at Plaza Art Center,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 pp. typewritten manuscript.
box 3, folder 19
"America Tropical" manuscript fragment,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p. describing the work.
box 3, folder 20
"America Tropical" manuscript,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typewritten
box 3, folder 21
"Algo Profético,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 pp. typewritten manuscript regarding Siqueiros's deportation.
box 3, folder 22
"Fresco as a Subversive Art," by Grace Clemente,
undated
Scope and Content Note
, 7 typewritten pp. manuscript fragment.
box 3, folder 32
2 photographs of Roberto Berdecio in front of
America
Tropical
mural,
undated
box 3, folder 24/27
"Mexico Actual,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten manuscripts explaining mural at house of D. Murphy.
box 3, folder 33
3 photographs of Siqueiros in front of
Mexico Actual mural
at D. Murphy's house,
undated
box 6
Negative of
Mexico Actual,
undated
box 2, folder 28
Handwritten notes for lecture on fresco painting
box 2, folder 27
"The Block of Mural Painters of Los Angeles"
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline of lecture(?)
box 2, folder 29
Handwritten notes about fresco painting
box 2, folder 30
Siqueiros letter to Carl Zigrosser, Los Angeles
box 3, folder 16
"The Mexican Experience"
undated
Scope and Content Note
8 partial pp. typewritten manuscript.
box 3, folder 17
"The Art of the Cement Fresco," by Siqueiros as told to M.J.
Spivack
Scope and Content Note
5 pp. typewritten manuscript.
box 3, folder 25
Notes for lecture on art and politics
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp.
box 3, folder 26
List of demands of the Revolutionary Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors of
Mexico
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp.
box 3, folder 28
"To All Intellectuals"
Scope and Content Note
manifesto issued by John Reed Club, 1 typewritten p.
box 3, folder 29
"Luis Arenal" by Siqueiros
Scope and Content Note
1 partial typewritten p.
box 3, folder 30
Fragment of article from
Experimental Cinema
mentioning Siqueiros's murals
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
Series III.
South America,
1933, undated
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear
Feet
(.25 box)
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts, printed materials and a photograph relating to Siqueiros during his time
in Argentina and Uruguay.
Arrangement
Arranged in rough chronological order within the journey.
box 4, folder 1
Manifesto on behalf of Uruguayan painters and sculptors,
undated
Scope and Content Note
by Siqueiros, Montevideo, 2 typewritten pp. With an account of Siqueiros's work with
Uruguayan painters, 1 typewritten p.,
box 4, folder 2
Manifesto on behalf of Uruguayan painters and sculptors,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. fragment of manuscript in folder 1.
box 4, folder 3
Fragment of letter from Siqueiros and Blanca Luz Brum, Buenos
Aires?,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
box 4, folder 4
"Que Pretendemos?"
undated
Scope and Content Note
manifesto fragment, Buenos Aires, 2 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 5
Lecture by Siqueiros regarding Mexican muralist movement,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Buenos Aires, 28 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 6
"Ejercicio Plastico,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
pamphlet, Buenos Aires
box 4, folder 7
Catalog for Siqueiros exhibition, Amigos del Arte, Buenos Aires,
undated
box 4, folder 8
Photograph of mural in Buenos Aires,
undated
box 4, folder 9
Clipping (fragment) about Argentine art by Siqueiros, from
Crítica, Buenos Aires,
undated
Series IV.
New York,
1934-1977, undated
Physical Description:
0.31 Linear
Feet
.75 box
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts, printed material, photographs from Siqueiros's time in New York. Includes
reviews, manifestos, letters and notes.
Arrangement
Arranged in rough chronological order and grouped by topic, where possible.
Siqueiros exhibition at Delphic Studios,
1934, undated
box 4, folder 27
Fragment of printed catalog essay,
undated
Scope and Content Note
like manuscript in folder 16.
box 4, folder 16
Catalog essay by Siqueiros,
1934
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp., 3 partial versions.
box 4, folder 20
List of works in Siqueiros exposition at Dephic Studios,
1934
box 4, folder 21
Delphic Studios catalogs of Siqueiros exhibition,
1934
Scope and Content Note
2 copies.
box 4, folder 12
Review (fragment) of Siqueiros exhibition at Delphic Studios,
1934
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten p.
box 4, folder 22
New York Sun review of Siqueiros exhibition at
Delphic Studios,
1934
Experimental Workshop,
1936, undated
box 4, folder 32
Rules and assumptions governing Siqueiros's Experimental
Workshop,
1936
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp. and 1 copy.
box 4, folder 33
Rules and assumptions governing Siqueiros's Experimental
Workshop,
1936
Scope and Content Note
same manuscript as in folder 32, 5 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 34
"Quatro meses de experiencia..." Experimental Workshop
manifesto,
1936
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 35
"The problem of the artistic education of the masses...," Experimental
Workshop manifesto,
1936
Scope and Content Note
Theoretical-technical principles of Experimental Workshop, 1 typewritten p.,
box 4, folder 36
"To the Cultural Committee Of the Artist's Union," Experimental Workshop
manifesto,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 partial typewritten p.
box 4, folder 37
Experimental Workshop, "All didactic forms of pedagogy...,"
1936
box 4, folder 38
Description of members of Experimental Workshop,
1936
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
box 4, folder 39
"On the Necessity for a Permanent Artist's Union Workshop,"
1936
Scope and Content Note
5 printed pp.
box 4, folder 40
Letter from Siqueiros to L.E.A.R. comrades,
1936
box 4, folder 41
"A Bill to be presented to Congress to provide for the establishment of
Federal Arts Centers ..."
Scope and Content Note
4 printed pp. with handwritten notes by Siqueiros
box 4, folder 50
Art Workshop Cooperative proposal,
undated
Assorted,
1934-1947, undated
box 4, folder 10
Autobiographical notes by Siqueiros,
1934
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten p.
box 4, folder 11
Notes by Siqueiros,
1934
Scope and Content Note
handwritten on catalog for Orozco exposition.
box 4, folder 13
Manifesto regarding muralists in New York,
1934
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p., 2 versions.
box 4, folder 14
Notes for a manifesto,
1934
Scope and Content Note
5 handwritten and typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 15
Essay responding to the critic Walter Pach,
1934
Scope and Content Note
10 handwritten and typewritten pp., 2 versions.
box 4, folder 17
"El Sindicato Revolucionario de Pintores y Escultores de
México,"
1934
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp. fragment.
box 4, folder 18
"Estercita,"
1934
Scope and Content Note
story by Siqueiros, Spanish and English versions, 10 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 19
Fragment of letter from Siqueiros to Pablo O'Higgins,
1934
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
box 4, folder 23
Letter from Siqueiros to American Communist Party comrades
1934
Scope and Content Note
regarding his artistic-political activities in New York, 1 partial typewritten
p.
box 4, folder 24
Letter from Siqueiros to comrades in L.E.A.R.,
1934
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 25
"Siqueiros y la critica,"
1934
Scope and Content Note
various versions of essay (dictated to Antonio Recio), 21 typewritten pp.
total.
box 4, folder 26
"Por el Materialismo Marxista sabemos,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp.
box 4, folder 28
Fragment of essay,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten p.
box 4, folder 29
Interview with Siqueiros by Robert Mallary,
1939
box 4, folder 30
Letters from Siqueiros to Kuniyoshi (painter),
1934, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p., 1936; Fragment of letter to Kuniyoshi, 2 typewritten pp., 2
drafts.
box 4, folder 31
Program from American Artists' Congress,
1936
box 4, folder 42
Announcement for Siqueiros lecture in New York City,
1936
box 4, folder 43
Papers presented by Orozco and Siqueiros at American Artists
Congress,
1936
Scope and Content Note
printed pamphlet.
box 4, folder 44
2 photographs, 1 of
Nina Madre and 1 of documentary
photograph it was based on,
1936
box 4, folder 45
Photograph of the Mexican delegation to the Congress of
Painters,
1936
box 4, folder 46
Photographic self-portrait of Siqueiros at Harvard,
1936
Scope and Content Note
2 copies.
box 4, folder 47
Fragmentary manuscript,
1936-1937
Scope and Content Note
25 handwritten pp.
box 4, folder 48
United American Artists proposed draft of by-laws, 6 printed
pp.
box 4, folder 49
Time magazine article on
Siqueiros,
1947
box 4, folder 51
Postcard of Siqueiros's "Echo of a Scream,"
1937
box 5, folder 11
Artforum article on Siqueiros,
Feb 1977
Series V.
Miscellanous and fragmentary manuscripts,
1930s, undated
Physical Description:
0.417 Linear
Feet
(1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Fragmentary and assorted manuscripts, undated, some perhaps from the 1930s. Manuscripts
appear to be autobiographical writings, and writings on art and politics. Included are
some printed items.
Arrangement
Randomly arranged.
box 5, folder 1
"Antecedentes,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
May be miscellaneous parts of Siqueiros's autobiography?, ca. 35 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 2
Autobiography?,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Fragment of Siqueiros's autobiography?,17 fragmentary typewritten pp.; Fragments from
Siqueiros's autobiography, 6 typewritten pp.,
box 5, folder 3
"Notas Autobiograficas,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
23 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 4
"Su ideologia"
undated
Scope and Content Note
part of a book on Mexican painting (?) , 2 versions, 62 typewritten pp. and 48
typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 5
"Por el Materialismo Marxista Sabemos..."
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten and handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 5
"La Escuela Socialista,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 5
Draft of introduction to edition of Siqueiros's lectures,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
box 5, folder 5
"Reto a Los Intelectuales de Derecha,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
box 5, folder 5
"Trotsky por Siqueiros,"
1939?
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 5
"Mi Opinion Sobre las Artes Plasticas,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p.
box 5, folder 5
Fragment of essay on art and society,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 5
"El Materialismo Marxista Nos Enseña a Saber..."
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 fragmentary pp.
box 5, folder 5
"La Estrategia del Arte Revolucionario,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten fragmentary pp.
box 5, folder 5
"Critica a Mariategui,"
undated
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5 handwritten pp. [i.e., Mariátegui, José Carlos (1894-1930) Peruvian Marxist,
author]
box 5, folder 5
"Dos Disfraces," theatrical sketch featuring historical figures,
undated
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7 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 6
"Militancia Revolucionaria,"
undated
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5 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 6
"La Producción Estetica,"
undated
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2 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 6
"Tecnica y Metodología,"
undated
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5 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 6
1 handwritten p. fragment,
undated
box 5, folder 6
"La revolución tecnica..."
undated
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1 typewritten p.
box 5, folder 6
"Presente y futuro.."
undated
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3 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 6
"El fascismo,"
undated
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2 typewritten pp. fragment.
box 5, folder 6
Fragment of manifesto regarding plastic,
undated
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2 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 6
4 miscellanous typewritten pp.,
undated
box 5, folder 6
1 typewritten page fragment on bourgeois painting vs. Siqueiros's
painting,
undated
box 5, folder 7
Fragment on Mexican muralist movement,
undated
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3 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 7
Fragment of manuscript on revolutionary art,
undated
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1 typewritten p.
box 5, folder 7
Fragment/draft of manifesto on revolutionary ideology and
technique,
undated
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4 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 7
"La tecnica del fresco,"
undated
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4 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 7
Fragment on traditional procedures and elements,
undated
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1 handwritten p.
box 5, folder 7
1 handwritten partial page,
undated
box 5, folder 7
Notes on architecture,
undated
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4 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 7
Antifascist notes,
undated
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2 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 7
Notes regarding society and aesthetics,
undated
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1 handwritten p.
box 5, folder 7
Notes,
undated
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2 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 7
Fragment on "Aprista" reform,
undated
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2 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 8
"Lo Que Hay Detras de la Guerra Entre Bolivia y Paraguay," by Antonio Recio
(pseud. for Siqueiros)
undated
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4 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 8
"De la Escultura de Taller a la Escultura Monumental,"
undated
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1 typewritten p. fragment.
box 5, folder 8
"Echave, el Mozo," article on Mexican colonial painting,
undated
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2 typewritten pp.
box 5, folder 8
Fragment on the modern fresco,
undated
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1 partial typewritten p.
box 5, folder 8
Poem by Siqueiros,
undated
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2 typewritten pp., fragment.
box 5, folder 9
"La Pintura Mexicana,"
undated
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4 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 9
Manifesto,
undated
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3 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 9
"Sobre teoria revolucionaria del arte,"
undated
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3 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 9
"Los Gobiernos de Latino America y la Lucha Anti-Imperialista,
undated
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16 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 9
"El Reformismo Socialista Latino-Americano Ante la Critica
Marxista,"
undated
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27 handwritten pp.
box 5, folder 10
Printed manifestos, conference and congress issues,
undated
box 5, folder 11
Article by Shifa Goldman on Siqueiros,
undated
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first two pages missing.
