- Artist or Maker
- Alfredo Zalce
Mexico, Michoacán, Pátzcuaro, 1908-2003 - Title
- Camp Follower (La soldadera)
- Date Made
- 1947
- Medium
- Linocut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 5/8 × 15 3/4 in. (26.99 × 40.01 cm); image: 8 1/4 × 12 3/16 in. (20.96 × 30.96 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2003.92.112
- Collecting Area
- Latin American Art
- Curatorial Notes
Women were active participants in the Mexican Revolution. Lower-class women, especially, filled various roles—such as soldiers, nurses, and cooks—and provided care and supplies to the troops. Such women were known by several names including soldaderas (female soldiers), camp followers, and Adelitas. Popularized through corridos (ballads) and photographs, the Adelita archetype became an allegorical and romanticized icon of the revolution. In this image, Alfredo Zalce honors the soldadera and alludes to her many roles. Here, she tends to the head wound of an injured soldier next to two rifles, one of which may be hers.
For more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, 2022, pp. 44–45.
- Provenance
Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, 1947; Dr. Jules Heller (1919–2007), Scottsdale, Arizona, 1947; LACMA, 2003.
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
- 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
