Homenaje a Cárdenas (Homage to Cárdenas) | Yale University Art Gallery

1956

This poster honors President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–40) upon his receipt of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1955 (renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1956). Each of the four artists emphasized Cárdenas’s dedication to workers and the peasant classes, as his administration strengthened unions and redistributed a large amount of land to rural communities through ejidos (cooperative farms). The bottom scene, a rural family hanging up a poster of Cárdenas on their wall, alludes to the Taller’s own role in the “veneration” of Cárdenas.

Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: sheet: 32 1/16 × 21 5/8 in. (81.5 × 55 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: 2015.14.4
Geography: Made in Mexico
Culture: Mexican, American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Purchased from the Taller de Gráfica by Aimée Brown Price and Monroe E. Price

Bibliography

"Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 74

Michael Ricker et al., El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte, exh. cat. (Athens, Ga.: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2015), 209, ill

Gina Costa et al., Para la gente : art, politics and cultural identity of the Taller de Gra´fica Popular : selected works form the Charles S. Hayes Collection of twentieth-century Mexican graphics, exh. cat. (Notre Dame (IN): Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2009), 38, no. 7, Plate 7

Helga Prignitz, El Taller de Gráfica Popular en México, 1937–1977 (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1992), 328, no. 189

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

commercial art, dissident art, figures (representations), histories (visual works), linocuts, political art, portraits

Subject

African American artists Women artists

Inscriptions

Nothing on verso

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