- Title
- The Industrialization of Latin America (La industrialización de América Latina)
- Date Made
- 1948
- Medium
- Linocut
- Dimensions
- 13 1/8 × 16 in. (33.34 × 40.64 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2003.92.35
- Collecting Area
- Latin American Art
- Curatorial Notes
Members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP; People’s Print Workshop) often collaborated together on a single print, with one artist creating the drawing and the other executing the print. This linocut was made jointly by Pablo O’Higgins and Arturo García Bustos for a collective portfolio of ten prints created by the TGP in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina (CTAL; Confederation of Latin American Workers). Founded shortly after the TGP in 1938 by Mexican labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, CTAL expanded the Mexican fight for workersʼ rights across Latin America and initiated partnerships with trade unions throughout the Americas. The TGP presented the portfolio during CTAL’s third general congress and hosted a reception for the international delegates. O’Higgins and García Bustos depict a worker standing in front of factory smokestacks, proudly waving a flag that declares CTAL’s support for industrialization.
Rachel Kaplan, 2023
- Provenance
Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, 1948; Dr. Jules Heller (1919–2007), Scottsdale, Arizona; LACMA, 2003.
