Pages 1, 2, 7 and 8 of an eight page broadsheet 'Calaveras aftosas con medias naylon' (Hoof and Mouth Skeletons with Nylon Stockings) addressing imperialism with images of 'calaveras' accompanied by 'corridos' (ballads); on the first page, a calavera cow with foot and mouth disease in nylon stockings refering to the contamination of milk
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- Title: Pages 1, 2, 7 and 8 of an eight page broadsheet 'Calaveras aftosas con medias naylon' (Hoof and Mouth Skeletons with Nylon Stockings) addressing imperialism with images of 'calaveras' accompanied by 'corridos' (ballads); on the first page, a calavera cow with foot and mouth disease in nylon stockings refering to the contamination of milk
- Artist: José Chávez Morado (Mexican, 1909–2002)
- Artist: Alfredo Zalce (Mexican, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán 1908–2003 Morelia)
- Artist: Miguel Covarrubias (Mexican, Mexico City 1904–1957 Mexico City)
- Artist: Alberto Beltrán (Mexican, Mexico City 1923–2002 Mexico City)
- Artist: Alberto Diaz (Mexican fl. ca. 1947)
- Artist: Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican, 1902–1969)
- Artist: Armando López (Mexican fl. ca. 1947)
- Artist: Jesús Escobedo (Mexican, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán 1918–1978)
- Artist: Francisco Mora (Mexican, Uruapán, Michoacán 1922–2002)
- Artist: José Luis Franco (Mexican fl. ca. 1947)
- Artist: Mariana Yampolsky (American, Chicago, Illinois 1925–2002 Mexico City)
- Artist: Raúl Anguiano (Mexican, 1915–2006)
- Artist: Erasto Cortés Juárez (Mexican, 1900–1972)
- Artist: Arturo García Bustos (Mexican, Mexico City 1926–2017)
- Artist: Feliciano Peña (Mexican, 1915–1982)
- Artist: Ignacio Aguirre (Mexican, San Sebastián, Jalisco 1900–1990 Mexico City)
- Artist: Fernando Castro Pacheco (Mexican, Mérida, Yucatán 1918–2013 Mérida, Yucatán)
- Date: 1947
- Medium: Linocuts and letterpress on buff paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 15 3/4 × 24 3/16 in. (40 × 61.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
- Object Number: 46.46.558(a)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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