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Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata

Artist/Maker (Mexican, 1886–1957)
Date1932
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 16 5/16 × 13 3/16 in. (41.4 × 33.5 cm)
Sheet: 22 11/16 × 15 13/16 in. (57.6 × 40.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Leona E. Prasse from the Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection in honor of Ellen H. Johnson
Edition96/100
Object number1977.93
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkMore Information
Emiliano Zapata derives from a panel titled The Revolt from Rivera’s mural cycle at the Palacio de Cortes, completed in 1930. As an endpoint to the cycle’s narrative, which chronicles the history of Mexico’s Cuernavaca region, the Christ-like figure of Zapata leads agrarian laborers to revolution. To this day, Rivera’s portrait of Zapata is considered one of the most iconic works of the Mexican Revolution.
Exhibition History
War and Anti-War Images from Four Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 21, 1982 - October 24, 1982 )
Images of War: Ritual and Reality
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 15, 1995 - October 22, 1995 )
Representing the Revolution: Works on Paper by Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siquieros
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 16, 1999 - March 30, 1999 )
The Mexican Revolution in Prints and Paintings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 9, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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