The Art of Persuasion

1. New Deal Legacies:
Art and Pedagogy in Puerto
Rico, 1948-68

2. Jack Delano and
Irene Delano in
Puerto RicoIrene Delano and Julio Rosado del Valle in the
Taller de Parques y Recreos, (1948)
Jack Delano directing “los muchachos” in
the film
Los peloteros, (Comerío,1952)

3. As an artist, I
often thought that if
members of the nobility
could have their
portraits painted to
hang in galleries and
museums, my parents,
and people like them,
deserved no less. I
most admired the
artists who recognized
this nobility in
ordinary people.

4. By Jack Delano

5. Don Emiliano Pacheco, 1946 Don Emiliano Pacheco,
1981

6. Children of laborer, Lajas (1946) Students at a University (1981)

7. Cortador de caña en Guánica 1941 Máquina cortadora de caña cerca de Juana
Díaz 1980

8. Sewing tobacco, Barranquitas, 1941 Assembling parts for
electronics, Caguas, 1981

9. Irene Delano

10. Irene Delano with a group of young people drawing in Fajardo,
Puerto Rico (1950)

11. “Danger” (1946),
Irene Delano

12. Irene Delano’s posters
“Open Air Gallery”

13. “The Baseball Players” (1951),
Irene Delano and Lorenzo Homar.

14. Edwin Rosskam

15. “Voting is a tool that we use to make our government”, Edwin Rosskam (1948)

16. Get
registered
Voting is a
right
Voting is a
duty.
Edwin Rosskam
(1948)

17. Puerto Rican artists
Silk-Screen poster workshop at the Division of Community
Education

18. Lorenzo Homar and Rafael Tufiño in the Division’s Workshop (c. 1953)

19. A friend’s house,
Rafael Tufiño (1968)

20. Poster and Cover, 5 stories of fear, Books for the people,
Lorenzo Homar

21. “Brainless John”, Carlos Osorio (1960)

22. “Brainless John”,
José Meléndez
Contreras (1972)

23. La Trampa (The Trap) Books for the people,
(1961)

24. Modesta,
Lorenzo Homar
(1955)

25. La mujer y sus derechos.
(Women and their rights)
Books for the people,
(1957)

26. Los casos de Ignacio y Santiago, Books for the people, (1953)

27. Catherine Marsh-Kennerley
Catedrática Asociada
Departamento de Español/
Programa de Estudios de la Mujer y el Género
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Recinto de Río Piedras
cmarsh@gmail.com