A Picture of Good Health

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A Picture of Good Health

c. 1920-1950

Felipe Jesús Consalvos (American (born Cuba), 1891–1957/58)

Consalvos emigrated from Cuba to Miami around 1920 and later moved to Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Working as a cigar wrapper, at one time in a Schmidt cigar factory in New York, he obtained books and stamps that he cut up and incorporated into collages. He applied the materials not only to two-dimensional works, but also to furniture, musical instruments, and other useful objects. Magazine illustrations, maps, postcards, Mexican woodcuts, currency, etc., combine in pieces that are at first glance vibrant, immediate, and reliant on repetition, but are actually more subtle and occasionally include strange political overtones, erotic twists, or a poetic embedding of words and language.

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Object Details

Title:

A Picture of Good Health
From the suite Anatomical Studies, #4

Date:

c. 1920-1950

Artist:

Felipe Jesús Consalvos (American (born Cuba), 1891–1957/58)

Medium:

Collage with color lithographed anatomical illustration, cigar bands, postage stamps, crepe paper, pieces of typed and printed text, with opaque watercolor and silver metallic paint on cigar box liner

Dimensions:

Sheet: 15 5/8 x 12 inches (39.7 x 30.5 cm) Mount: 16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by an anonymous donor in honor of William H. Helfand, 2004

Accession Number:

2004-174-4

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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