The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Erasmo Herrera
1991
(Peruvian, b. 1959)
Overall: 60 x 50 cm (23 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Gift of Jorge and Martha Schneider 2019.147
© Roberto Huarcaya
Location: not on view
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This occupational portrait shows the subject amid the objects with which he makes his living.Description
Erasmo Herrera came to Lima at age 16 and helped his brothers, who worked as landscapers. Eventually, he started his own landscaping business. “I don’t have bosses, set schedules. I wouldn’t change my job,” he said. The artist wanted workers like Vargas, who serve the tourists and wealthy Lima residents of the upscale Miraflores area, to be seen as individuals, so he handwrote their life stories around their portraits.- 1991Roberto Huarcaya (the artist)Schneider Gallery, Chicago, ILJune 3, 2019the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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