Donación Maples Arce

About this book

Tribute exhibition to the Maples Arce Vermeersch family, who in 1985, 1992 and 2015 made important donations including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, gouaches, print plaques, prints, photographs and furniture. Includes a careful selection of art works from the private collection of poet, literate and art collector Manuel Maples Arce, (b. Papantla Veracruz 1900-México City 1981), the head and leader of the art movement Estridentista (1921-1927), a group that proposed an aesthetic transformation through the creations of authors, poets and artists: Germán List Arzubide (1898-1998), Salvador Gallardo (1893-1981), Arqueles Vela (1899-1977), Miguel Aguillón Guzmán (1898-1995), Ramón Alva de la Canal (1892-1985), Fermín Revueltas (1901-1935) and Germán Cueto (1893-1975).