Despertar (Awaken) Artist: Adolfo Mexiac (Mexican, 1927–2019)
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, founded 1937)

1962

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Linocut

Dimensions

block: 21 7/16 × 27 9/16 in. (54.5 × 70 cm)
sheet: 24 × 32 in. (61 × 81.3 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

2011.203.12

Geography

Made in Mexico

Culture

Mexican

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 21, 2012), 73
  • Blanca Garduño Pulido, Alberto Híjar Serrano, and Adolfo Mexiac, Libertad de expresión : Adolfo Mexiac, 1st, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Institutio Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico), 1998), 72, no. 53, Cat. 54
Object copyright
Copyright Adolfo Mexiac / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), landscapes (representations), linocuts, political art

Subject

human figures (visual works) machetes men resistance movements

Inscriptions

Recto, LR, graphite: Mexiac con todo afecto para Irma(?) companera por muchos anos y para su esposo. 1962

Signed

recto, LR, in plate: AM

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