Collection: Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and visual artist, and one of the central figures of twentieth-century Spanish literature and the Generation of ’27. Born in Granada, Lorca studied at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where he formed close relationships with Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel that would shape the cultural landscape of Spanish modernism. His poetry — including Romancero gitano (1928) and Poeta en Nueva York (written 1929–30, published posthumously) — combined Andalusian folk tradition, surrealist imagery, and an intense lyrical voice. His theatre, including Bodas de sangre (1932), Yerma (1934), and La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936), remains among the most performed in the Spanish-language repertoire.

Lorca’s friendship with Dalí in the 1920s was one of the most charged relationships in modern cultural history — moving between collaboration, desire, artistic exchange, and emotional dependency. Lorca was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the outset of the Spanish Civil War in August 1936. His work and biography continue to be central to discussions of Spanish modernism, queer cultural history, and the politics of memory.

This collection brings together printed matter and ephemera connected to Lorca’s life, work, and cultural afterlife.