4 Paradoxical Ballads About American Intervention (4 corridos vaciladores de la intervención americana)

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4 Paradoxical Ballads About American Intervention (4 corridos vaciladores de la intervención americana)

Mexico, Mexico City, 1938
Prints; linocuts
Linocut
13 7/8 × 9 3/8 in. (35.24 × 23.81 cm)
Gift of Jules and Gloria Heller (M.2003.92.70a-d)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

This broadsheet contains four corridos (ballads) on the theme of U.S....
This broadsheet contains four corridos (ballads) on the theme of U.S. intervention in Mexico illustrated by members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Print Workshop): a) Ballad of the Eclipse of the Peso (Corrido del eclipse del peso) with linocut by José Chávez Morado; b) Ballad of the Persecution of Pancho Villa (Corrido de la persecución de Pancho Villa) with linocut by Jesús Escobedo; c) Ballad of the ‘Good Neighbor’ (Corrido del ‘Buen Vecino’) with linocut by José Chávez Morado; d) Ballad of the Expropriation of Oil (Corrido de la expropiación petrolera) with linocut by Alfredo Zalce.
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Provenance

Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, 1938; Dr. Jules Heller (1919–2007), Scottsdale, Arizona, 1947; LACMA, 2003.