En la Hamaca (In the Hammock) from Estampas de Yucatán (Prints of Yucatán)

Maker and role
Artist: Alfredo Zalce, Mexican, 1908-2003
 Year
1945
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Object detail

Media/Materials
Lithograph
Measurements
sheet, 15 1/16 x 17 1/2in (38.3 x 44.5cm)
image, 11 x 13in (27.9 x 33cm)
Credit line
Gift of Susan Toomey Frost
Accession number
2015.153
Object type
Prints
Department
Prints and Drawings
Location
Not on view
Further information
Alfredo Zalce completed a suite of eight lithographs based on his travels through the Yucatán peninsula in the 1940s. These images illustrate one of the tenets of modern art in post-Revolutionary Mexico: the championing of indigenous people and cultures, depicting aspects of the Mayan tradition in the Yucatán. This image shows a mother and child relaxing in a traditional Mayan hamaca (or hammock) made of henequen fiber, cultivated in the Yucatán since pre-Columbian times.
Copyright
© Alfredo Zalce / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City
Signature & date
Signed and dated, l.r. Alfredo Zalce 1945
Subject period
Mexican Muralists and Printmakers
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