Carrillo Puerto, Symbol of the Southeastern Revolution (Carrillo Puerto, símbolo de la revolución del sureste)

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Carrillo Puerto, Symbol of the Southeastern Revolution (Carrillo Puerto, símbolo de la revolución del sureste)

Portfolio: Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana

Mexico, Mexico City, 1947
Prints; linocuts
Linocut
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (40.01 × 26.99 cm); image: 11 11/16 × 8 3/8 in. (29.69 × 21.27 cm)
Gift of Jules and Gloria Heller (M.2003.92.119)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

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

Label

In 1945 members of the TGP began work on Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution).

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In 1945 members of the TGP began work on Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution). Including eighty-five linocuts by sixteen artists, the collective portfolio chronicles Mexico’s revolutionary history from 1876 through 1947. This was one of the first prints created for the project. Fernando Castro Pacheco portrays Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1874–1924), the governor of Yucatán and an advocate for agrarian reform and Indigenous rights. Carrillo Puerto carries a flag reading “Tierra y Libertad” (Land and Liberty) in his upraised arm and rallies others to action—a popular motif in revolutionary graphics.


From exhibition Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in the accompanying publication, pp. 20–21)
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Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.

Exhibition history

  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023