Felipe Jesus Consalvos was a Cuban-American cigar roller and artist, known for his posthumously discovered body of artwork based on the vernacular tradition of cigar-band collage. A large body of Consalvos’ art work was discovered in 1983 at a Philadelphia garage sale. The body of work consists of over 800 collages on paper, found photographs, musical instruments, furniture, and other objects. Consalvos’ playful and often subversively political work—on which he is thought to have collaborated with his son, Jose Felipe Consalvos — appropriated cigar bands and cigar-box paper, along with magazine images, family photographs, postage stamps, and cut-up money.
Felipe Jesus Consalvos
