Jose Clemente Orozco [With:] Two Autograph Letters, signed ("José Clemente Orozco"), to Arthur B. Springarn, New York attorney and head of the legal committee of the NAACP, and accompanying ephemera

Illustrated, Unpaginated [272 pp]. 2 vols. 4to. [WITH] Helm, MacKinley, Man of Fire J.C. Orozco an Interpretive Memoir, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953 (cloth backed boards, very good in worn jacket, the second letter is loosely inserted with two New York exhibition leaflets and a color plate from another catalogue, the envelope in Orozco's hand tipped to front pastedown Two fine ALSs from Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco to Arthur Spingarn, the first a New Year's greeting for 1929 (dated West 22nd Street, New York, December 30th, 1928); the second is dated May 30, 1929, and is a 20-line expression of thanks and good wishes for Springarn's warm reception of Orozco. Two leaflets for exhibitions are loosely inserted, with a mailing envelope in Orozco's hand: Ink and Pencil Drawings from a series "Mexico in Revolution", Galleries of Marie Sterner, October 1928; and the second an invitation and catalogue of an exhibition of new York paintings and drawings at the Downtown Gallery in the spring of 1929. José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was a Mexican painter and muralist known as one of the "Big Three" along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. His work dealt with Mexican culture and politics of a post-revolutionary Mexico. Arthur B. Springarn (1878-1971) was an early white civil rights advocate of equal rights for African Americans, and served as head of the legal committee of the NAACP. He also collected art, books, and manuscripts on the Black American experience, and found a kinship in Orozco's messages in Mexico. Through Orozco's exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery in the late 1920s the two became friendly and corresponded. Original black cloth, sunned and rubbed along edges, bottom corners, and head and foot of spine, BOLDLY SIGNED "J.C. Orozco" in black ink on the second blank, letter tipped in to front pastedown; letters very good plus Illustrated, Unpaginated [272 pp]. 2 vols. 4to.…