50.000 cubiertos (50,000 Place Settings) Artist: José Chávez Morado (Mexican, 1909–2002)
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, founded 1937)

1939

Prints and Drawings

José Chávez Morado’s print pokes fun at the various right-wing politicians who struck allegiances with each other prior to the 1940 election. Depicting them as a pack of dogs drooling over a “sumptuous feast,” Chávez Morado mocks the men by modifying their last names. Pablo González becomes Pablo “the Bloodhound”; Mena Brito, Mena “Bruto”; and León Ossorio, “Meón Hosario” (roughly, “Bedwetter Crypt”). The verses on the right mix onomatopoeias, idioms, and insults in a witty nonsense poem about greed and corruption. Sometimes called Comelitón de políticos reaccionarios (Feeding-Trough of Reactionary Politicians), the poster makes clear that no real allegiance between these politicians exists—they are all after the same bone.

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 25 3/16 × 19 5/16 in. (64 × 49 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Holmes Pearson, B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1941

Accession Number

1954.4.21

Geography
Culture
Period

20th century

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Bibliography
  • Michael Ricker et al., El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte, exh. cat. (Athens, Ga.: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2015), 129, ill
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Object/Work type

lithographs

Inscriptions

Nothing on verso. On recto inscribed in plate, C: "50.000 / CUBIERTOS", two-column text in spanish under heading.

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