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A Mexican chaingang being forced to break rocks in a quarry in the Valle Nacional in Oaxaca, guarded by a rifle-bearing foreman

Alfredo Zalce Mexican
? Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican

1946

Not on view

This print became plate 7 from the later portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution) published by the TGP in 1947. It is presumed that the Taller de Gráfica de Popular also published this print. See 1993.1133.6

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Title: A Mexican chaingang being forced to break rocks in a quarry in the Valle Nacional in Oaxaca, guarded by a rifle-bearing foreman

Artist: Alfredo Zalce (Mexican, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán 1908–2003 Morelia)

Publisher: ? Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City

Date: 1946

Medium: Linocut

Dimensions: Sheet: 13 9/16 × 14 3/4 in. (34.5 × 37.5 cm)
Image: 8 7/16 × 11 5/8 in. (21.5 × 29.5 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946

Object Number: 46.46.675

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