El Rio Palizada (Palizada River) 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 1/8 x 17 1/2in (38.4 x 44.5cm)
image, 10 1/4 x 13in (26 x 33cm)
image, 10 1/4 x 13in (26 x 33cm)
Credit line
Gift of Susan Toomey Frost
Accession number
2015.152
Object type
Department
Location
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 peaceful scene of a family, dressed in simple tunics, gliding past mangrove trees in a wooden canoe on the Palizada River, an important trade route for the native peoples of the area.
Copyright
© Alfredo Zalce / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City
Signature & date
Signed and dated, l.r. Alfredo Zalce 1945
Subject period
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