Zapatistas (Generals)

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Zapatistas (Generals)

Artist Jose Clemente Orozco (Mexican, 1883 -1949)

Date1935

DimensionsSheet: 16 × 20 1/8 in. (40.6 × 51.1 cm)
Image: 12 7/8 × 16 1/4 in. (32.7 × 41.3 cm)

MediumLithograph

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Elsa Nadler, Sarah Fleisher, and William Nadler

Object number

2019.66

Not on View

DescriptionOrzoco’s depiction features a mass of civilian troops while three leaders or Zapatistas tower over them as they survey their men. Wearing similar uniforms, the facial expressions between leaders and their followers vary greatly. Weary with eyes lowered under a sea of sombreros, the men press onward as they are herded under the close surveillance of their maniacal-eyed supervisors.

Published ReferencesPellicer, Carlos, Exposicion Nacional: José Clemente Orozco, Mexico City, Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1947, pl. 133.

Fernández, Justino, Obras de José Clemente Orozco en la Coleccion Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, privately printed by Dr. Alvar Carrillo Gil, 1949, pl. 26.

Hopkins, Jon H., Orozco: A Catalogue of His Graphic Work, Flagstaff, Northern Arizona University Publications, 1967, pp. 80-81, pl. 29.

Orozco, Clemente, José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2004, pp. 62-63, pl. 24.

Exhibition HistoryMexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Exposicion Nacional: José Clemente Orozco, 1947.

Chicago, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Mexican Prints, January 1-31, 1976.