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Series Title: Functional Architecture

Shadows, No. 1

c. 1950

Francisco Dosamantes

(Mexican, 1911–1986)
printer

José Sanchez

(Mexican, active 20th century)
publisher

Taller de Gráfica Popular

(Mexican, 1937-)
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Culture
Mexico, 20th century
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
Sheet: 29.7 x 15 cm (11 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Francisco Dosamantes 1954.13.3
Edition
edition of 55
Impression
29
Copyright
© Francisco Dosamantes
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Francisco Dosamantes offered the portfolio to which this print belongs as a gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art shortly after it was published in acknowledgement of the museum's growing collection of Mexican art.

Description

These prints belong to a series in which Francisco Dosamantes juxtaposed Mexico’s rural, indigenous culture with its rapidly industrializing cities. Both artworks depict stark white silhouettes of working-class men against abandoned farmland, suggesting that such figures were being gradually phased out of modern society. Dosamantes intended the series as a political statement on the loss of Mexico’s native culture, as collectivity gave way to urban alienation.

Shadows, No. 1

c. 1950

Francisco Dosamantes, José Sanchez, Taller de Gráfica Popular

(Mexican, 1911–1986), (Mexican, active 20th century), (Mexican, 1937-)
Mexico, 20th century

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