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The Cart of Death

1944
Not on view
Dosamantes was director at the Joaquín Clausell Painting Workshop in Campeche—a port city on the Gulf of Mexico. The striking image of a skeleton driving a cart at a furious pace serenaded by animal musicians was designed for a poster announcing an exhibition at the workshop of thirty-four linocuts from Estampas de la revolución mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution). The portfolio ended up comprising eighty-five prints and was published in 1947 by the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Cart of Death
  • Artist: Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican (1911–1986)
  • Date: 1944
  • Medium: Linocut
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 19 11/16 × 24 3/16 in. (50 × 61.5 cm)
    Image: 17 5/16 × 21 1/4 in. (44 × 54 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024
  • Object Number: 2024.69.16
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Head and shoulders of a young girl facing right, Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican Mexican, Lithograph
Head and shoulders of a young girl facing right
Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican
ca.1930
Dead soldiers (Fascism), Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican Mexican, Lithograph
Dead soldiers (Fascism)
Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican
1940
Three woman in the traditional dress of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican Mexican, Lithograph
Three woman in the traditional dress of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico
Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican
1946
'Anguish' personified by the head of a woman
Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican
1945
'Sueño infantil': sleeping child dreaming of fish and a horse, Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican Mexican, Colour lithograph
'Sueño infantil': sleeping child dreaming of fish and a horse
Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican
ca 1950–1960

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