- Artist or Maker
- Alfredo Zalce
Mexico, Michoacán, Pátzcuaro, 1908-2003 - 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)
- Accession Number
- M.2003.92.70a-d
- 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.
