We Reject War

Publisher Probably Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican

1959

Not on view

Mora joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City in 1941 and remained a member until 1965. He probably created this print at the workshop, where he was encouraged to produce art that focused on social justice. In the print, Mora widened his lens to assert a universal message, depicting a couple and their child expressing his own antipathy to war. The subject of the print is known through an inscription on the back of this sheet. The man and woman possibly represent Mora and Elizabeth Catlett who married in 1947.

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Provenance

Title: We Reject War
Artist: Francisco Mora (Mexican, Uruapán, Michoacán 1922–2002)
Publisher: Probably Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
Date: 1959
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Sheet: 25 3/8 × 19 11/16 in. (64.5 × 50 cm)
Image: 17 11/16 × 12 13/16 in. (45 × 32.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024
Object Number: 2024.69.46
Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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