- Title
- Calaveras with Hoof-and-Mouth Disease and Nylon Stockings (Calaveras aftosas con medias naylon)
- Date Made
- 1947
- Medium
- Linocut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15 5/8 × 24 1/4 in. (39.69 × 61.6 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2003.92.17
- Collecting Area
- Latin American Art
- Curatorial Notes
Each year the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP; People’s Print Workshop) produced a special broadsheet to commemorate the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), celebrated on November 1 and 2. The members satirically depicted current events—both mundane and sensational—with rich illustrations of calaveras (animated skeletons, directly translated as “skulls”) laid out in a newspaper format. TGP artists carried on the tradition of creating calavera sheets for the Día de los Muertos from their graphic predecessors Manuel Manilla (c. 1830–1895) and José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), who used complementary images and texts to humorously address difficult political realities.
Rachel Kaplan, 2023
- Provenance
Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, 1947; Dr. Jules Heller (1919–2007), Scottsdale, Arizona, 1947; LACMA, 2003.
- Selected Exhibition History
- Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
- Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
