The Cart of Death

1944

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Dosamantes was director at the Joaquín Clausell Painting Workshop in Campeche—a port city on the Gulf of Mexico. The striking image of a skeleton driving a cart at a furious pace serenaded by animal musicians was designed for a poster announcing an exhibition at the workshop of thirty-four linocuts from Estampas de la revolución mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution). The portfolio ended up comprising eighty-five prints and was published in 1947 by the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City.

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Title: The Cart of Death
Artist: Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican (1911–1986)
Date: 1944
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Sheet: 19 11/16 × 24 3/16 in. (50 × 61.5 cm)
Image: 17 5/16 × 21 1/4 in. (44 × 54 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024
Object Number: 2024.69.16
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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A poster advertising a second meeting (April 20, 1939) in Mexico City supported by the Liga Pro-cultura Alemana relating to Italian Fascism, Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican Mexican, Lithograph in red and black on buff paper backed on linen — A poster advertising a second meeting (April 20, 1939) in Mexico City supported by the Liga Pro-cultura Alemana relating to Italian Fascism
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Sharecropper, Elizabeth Catlett American and Mexican, Linocut printed in green and black — Sharecropper
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Three woman in traditional Mexican dress, one seated, two standing by the ocean, Francisco Dosamantes, Mexican Mexican, Lithograph — Three woman in traditional Mexican dress, one seated, two standing by the ocean
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International exhibition of surrealism, André Breton French — International exhibition of surrealism
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