Selected Research Resources

Museo José Guadalupe Posada Virtual Tour

Take a virtual tour of the José Guadalupe Posada Museum (Aguascalientes, Mexico)

Open-Access Digitized Collections & Online Exhibits on José Guadalupe Posada

Extensive collections of original Posada materials, held at prominent European, Mexican, and North American libraries, museums, and private collections, are now digitally available as open-access resources. This is a select list of the most relevant collections of digitized Posada materials.

Calaveras in the Collection of Carlos Monsiváis, Museo del Estanquillo (Ciudad de México) (Google Arts & Culture)

Colección José Guadalupe Posada, Museo Nacional de Arte (Ciudad de México)

Colección José Guadalupe Posada, Museo Nacional de la Estampa (Ciudad de México)

Colección Manuel Manilla, Museo Nacional de la Estampa (Ciudad de México)

Fernando Gamboa Collection of Prints by José Guadalupe Posada. Center for Southwestern Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico

Illustrating México one page at a time — Print Art of José Guadalupe Posada. University of California, Berkeley

Jean Charlot Collection: José Guadalupe Posada Prints. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa

José Guadalupe Posada Collection. Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, Texas)

José Guadalupe Posada. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Laboratorio de Culturas e Impresos Populares Iberoamericanos. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Mexican Prints – Posada. Ibero-American Institute (Berlin)

Posada Art Foundation. The Brady Nikas Collection (private collection)

Posada Transmisor, Museo Nacional de Arte (Ciudad de México)

Posada's work at Library of Congress Photos, Prints, Drawings. Library of Congress (LOC)

The Skeleton Caricatures of Posada. New York Public Library (NYPL)

SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Southern Methodist University

Bibliography on José Guadalupe Posada available at IU Libraries

The Latin American Collection in the IU Libraries holds a robust collection of specialized literature on José Guadalupe Posada particularly and Mexican popular culture generally. This selected list is intended to guide students and scholars in their study of Posada’s artwork.

Antúnez, Francisco. Exposición centenario: catálogo.  Aguascalientes, 1952. [IUB ALF NE2275.A4 P8]

Atl, Dr. Las artes populares en México. 2nd ed. México: Editorial 'Cvltvra', 1922. (2 volumes) [IUB ALF NK844 .M97 v.1 & v. 2]

Berdecio, Roberto, and Stanley Appelbaum. Posada's Popular Mexican Prints: 273 Cuts by José Guadalupe Posada. New York, Dover Publications, 1972. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 B47 1972]

Bianchi, Laetitia, and Mercurio López Casillas. Posada. Paris: L'Association, 2019. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 B536 2019]

Bianchi, Laetitia, and Mercurio López Casillas. Posada: genio del grabado. Ciudad de México: Artes de México y del Mundo, Ambassade de France au Mexique, IFAL Institut Français, 2021. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 B53618 2021]

Frank, Patrick. Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1910. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1998. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 F73 1998]

Gamboa, Fernando, Carl O. Schniewind,  and Hugh L. Edwards. Posada, Printmaker to the Mexican People, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1944. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P8 A25].

José Guadalupe Posada: ilustrador de la vida mexicana. México, Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana, 1963. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 A4 1963]

Las obras de José Guadalupe Posada, grabador mexicano. Edited by Frances Toor, Paul O'Higgins, and Blas Vanegas Arroyo, México, Mexican Folkways, 1930. [IUB Wells AFL NE546.P8 A2]

Lebero, Stals, and Ramón Reverté. Posada: Mexican Engraver. Translated by Gregoery Dechant, Sevilla, Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporáneo; México, Editorial RM, 2008. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 A4 2008]

López Casillas, Mercurio. José Guadalupe Posada: ilustrador de cuadernos populares, México, Editorial RM, 2003. [IUB ALF NE546.P6 A4 2003]

Miliotes, Diane Helen. José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside = José Guadalupe Posada y la hoja volante mexicana. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2006. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 A4 2006]

Mock, Melody. Hojas Volantes: José Guadalupe Posada, the Corrido, and the Mexican Revolution. M.A. Dissertation. University of North Texas, 1996. [Available from University of North Texas Digital Library]

Quiroga Costilla, Cuitláhuac, Agustín Sánchez González, and Gabriela Sánchez. José Guadalupe Posada: el gran ilustrador de lo mexicano. Monterrey, Museo de Historia Mexicana, 2012. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 A4 2012]

Rothenstein, Julian. Posada, Messenger of Mortality. London, Redstone Press in association with the South Bank Centre, 1989. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P6 A4 1989]

Topete del Valle, Alejandro. José Guadalupe Posada: prócer de la gráfica popular mexicana. México, Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, 2002. [IUB ALF NE546.P6 T66 2002]

Tyler, Ronnie C. Posada's Mexico. Washington, Library of Congress, 1979. [IUB Wells 9th floor NE546.P8 A4 1979]