Soldado libertador (Liberating Soldier) Artist: Adolfo Mexiac (Mexican, 1927–2019)
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, founded 1937)

1957

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Adolfo Mexiac trained at the National School of Visual Arts under Ignacio Aguirre, José Chávez Morado, and Pablo O’Higgins. Along with artists like Elizabeth Catlett and Arturo García Bustos, Mexiac formed part of a younger generation that began working at the Taller in the 1940s and early 1950s, producing some of its strongest images from that period. The early works of the Taller often represented fascism with a soldier calavera, the famous skeletal figure made popular by José Guadalupe Posada. By using the same kind of image, Mexiac compares contemporary treatment of indigenous populations to the fascist regimes of the 1930s and 1940s.

Medium

Linocut

Dimensions

platemark: 36.5 × 27.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
sheet: 41.2 × 351 cm (16 3/16 × 138 3/16 in.)

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

2013.88.1

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.

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

  • "Acquisitions 2014," http://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2014_02.pdf (accessed December 1, 2014).

Object copyright
Copyright Adolfo Mexiac / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

dissident art, figures (representations), human figures (visual works), linocuts, political art

Subject

freedom prisoners revolutions rifles (artillery) skulls (skeleton components) soldiers whips (animal equipment)

Marks

Taller stamp verso

Signed

recto, graphite, LR, below plate: "Mexiac 1957"

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