- Title
- Carrillo Puerto, Symbol of the Southeastern Revolution (Carrillo Puerto, símbolo de la revolución del sureste)
- Date Made
- 1947
- Medium
- Linocut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (40.01 × 26.99 cm); image: 11 11/16 × 8 3/8 in. (29.69 × 21.27 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2003.92.119
- Collecting Area
- Latin American Art
- Curatorial Notes
In 1945 members of the TGP began work on Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution). Including eighty-five linocuts by sixteen artists, the collective portfolio chronicles Mexico’s revolutionary history from 1876 through 1947. This was one of the first prints created for the project. Fernando Castro Pacheco portrays Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1874–1924), the governor of Yucatán and an advocate for agrarian reform and Indigenous rights. Carrillo Puerto carries a flag reading “Tierra y Libertad” (Land and Liberty) in his upraised arm and rallies others to action—a popular motif in revolutionary graphics.
From exhibition Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in the accompanying publication, pp. 20–21)
- 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
