Media: The Lobby Cards of Cabral Part Two

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 6 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about golden age illustration.


A couple of weeks ago, we posted scans of a collection of Mexican lobby cards by master caricaturist, Ernesto Garcia Cabral. Today we digitized more of the collection.










Now for a little quiz... Which of the following lobby cards are by Cabral and which aren't?






The answer is "none of the above"... These five cards were likely painted by Juan Antonio Vargas Briones... a second generation Mexican movie poster artist who was the director of publicity at the Mexican Movie Distribution company. It's clear that Cabral's influence was strong among movie publicity artists.

For more wonderful Mexican lobby Cards, see The Greatest Cartoonist You Never Heard Of Before, SciFi and Adventure Gallery, and Mexican Lobby Card Fiesta.

See also... Mid 30s Colliers Illustrations, Mid 30s Advertisements, Wartime Colliers, Late 40s Colliers, Lawson Wood: The Monkey Artist, Casey Strikes Out In Coronet, Bugs Bunny in Coronet Magazine December 1945, Milton Caniff in Coronet Magazine

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