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José Chávez Morado
4 Paradoxical Ballads About American Intervention (4 corridos vaciladores de la intervención americana)1938

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Woodcut broadside on aged tan paper, two-page spread with bold black illustrations and Spanish typeset text; left page shows a man gripping a serpentine form amid flames, right page shows a crowd confronting a caricatured globe
Printed broadside, two-page spread on aged paper with Spanish text and black woodcut illustrations. Left page shows a figure in a wide-brimmed hat beside a cannon or cart; right page depicts a caricatured bull or beast in front of a building, with a standing figure nearby. Bold printed headings in Spanish above columns of verse.

José Chávez Morado, Jesús Escobedo, Alfredo Zalce, Taller de Gráfica Popular, 4 Paradoxical Ballads About American Intervention (4 corridos vaciladores de la intervención americana), 1938, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Jules and Gloria Heller, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
José Chávez Morado
Mexico, Silao, Guanajuato, 1909-2002
Artist or Maker
Jesús Escobedo
Mexico, 1918-1978
Artist or Maker
Alfredo Zalce
Mexico, Michoacán, Pátzcuaro, 1908-2003
Publisher
Taller de Gráfica Popular
Mexico, Mexico City, founded 1937
Title
4 Paradoxical Ballads About American Intervention (4 corridos vaciladores de la intervención americana)
Date Made
1938
Medium
Linocut
Dimensions
13 7/8 × 9 3/8 in. (35.24 × 23.81 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jules and Gloria Heller
Accession Number
M.2003.92.70a-d
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes
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.
Provenance
Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, 1938; Dr. Jules Heller (1919–2007), Scottsdale, Arizona, 1947; LACMA, 2003.