Petróleo para la paz (Petroleum for Peace) Yale University Art Gallery

1948

Like the print by Alberto Beltrán and Pablo O’Higgins, this one by Francisco Mora celebrates the First Congress of Latin American Oil Workers. Standing larger than life above a triumphant slogan that reads, “First Congress of Latin American Oil Workers: for an oil industry at the service of humanity and for the sake of the people’s prosperity,” an oil worker—presumably one of a great many to attend the event—spreads his arms over the names and flags of the countries involved in the congress: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: sheet: 37 3/16 × 26 3/4 in. (94.4 × 68 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Monroe E. Price, B.A. 1960, LL.B. 1964, and Aimée Brown Price, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1972
Accession Number: 2018.64.43
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexican
Period: 20th century
Classification: Posters
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Provenance

Purchased from the Taller de Gráfica by Aimée Brown Price and Monroe E. Price, ca. 1995-98

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 41

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Object/Work type

advertising art, dissident art, linocuts, political art, propaganda

Subject

industry, laborers

Inscriptions

Text below: 1er Congreso de trabajadores petroleros latinoamericanos / STPRM CTAL / Por una industria petrolera al servicio de la humanidad en aras de la prosperidad de los pueblos / 22 al 26 de septiembre de 1948 / Tampico, Tamps, Mexico

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