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Posada in his workshop (homage to Posada)

ca. 1956
Not on view
With this print, Méndez expressed his admiration for José Guadalupe Posada, who is often described as the father of printmaking in Mexico. Posada is shown holding an engraving tool as he watches police on horseback attacking workers. The street scene closely resembles a print Posada created for the May 1892 issue of Gaceta Callejera, which reported on Porfirio Diìaz, the authoritarian president of Mexico who, from 1876, held power for some thirty years. Behind Posada are three men; the two at left are the social-reform activists Ricardo Flores Magón and Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, both of whom resisted Díaz’s regime. During his reign, Díaz confiscated land belonging to peasant villagers, one of many actions that would spark the Mexican Revolution in 1910.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Posada in his workshop (homage to Posada)
  • Artist: Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican, 1902–1969)
  • Date: ca. 1956
  • Medium: Linocut
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 20 1/16 × 33 11/16 in. (51 × 85.5 cm)
    Image: 13 3/4 × 30 13/16 in. (35 × 78.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024
  • Object Number: 2024.69.30
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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