The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Zapatistas
1935
(Mexican, 1883–1949)
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Sheet: 44 x 56.6 cm (17 5/16 x 22 5/16 in.); Image: 32.2 x 41.3 cm (12 11/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2002.25
© José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
Catalogue raisonné: Hopkins 29; Orozco 24
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
José Clemente Orozco was one of numerous Mexican muralists to depict Emiliano Zapata around the time this print was made.Description
This print depicts Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), a leader of the Mexican Revolution who became a symbol of progressive politics in the decades following his assassination. Zapata disavowed his privileged background and fought for workers’ rights. In spite of Zapata's heroic status, José Clemente Orozco’s print presents a disillusioned view of his followers: virtually identical men, they march forward under the eye of leaders as nefarious as those they initially rebelled against. The image suggests the complicated views that artists held about a revolution that fundamentally transformed their worldview and way of life.- 2002(Abigail Furey Fine Prints and Drawings, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)2002-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-August 2, 2020).
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