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SIlver Mine Worker in Pachuca, from "Mexican People"

1946
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690
A miner crouches awkwardly as he makes his way through the claustrophobic space of a tunnel, its rough-hewn surfaces illuminated by the man’s lamp and echoed in the angular forms of his body. While the image is composed so that the figure faces us directly, confronting us with his grim expression, his straining eyes take in only the long, dark path ahead of him. Through works like this one, Mora, a printmaker committed to social causes, sought to expose the brutal working conditions of silver miners and other laborers, as well as the systemic economic and environmental legacies of imperialism.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: SIlver Mine Worker in Pachuca, from "Mexican People"
  • Series/Portfolio: Mexican People
  • Artist: Francisco Mora (Mexican, Uruapán, Michoacán 1922–2002)
  • Date: 1946
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 17 11/16 × 15 3/16 in. (45 × 38.5 cm)
    Image: 13 3/4 × 11 1/4 in. (35 × 28.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024
  • Object Number: 2024.69.49
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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