Calaveras Estranguladoras / Anonymous Mexican / possibly Leopoldo Mendez

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Accession Number: 1983/2.44
Title: Calaveras Estranguladoras
Artist: Anonymous Mexican
Artist Nationality: Mexican
Medium and Support: woodcut and metalcuts on paper
Object Creation Date: circa 1940
Credit Line: Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
Dimensions: 47.6 cm x 35.1 cm (18 3/4 in. x 13 13/16 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: candles; car; kneeling; newspapers; rocks; skeletons
Secondary Keywords: animal material; animal material by form or function; candles and candleholders; descriptors; document genres; document genres by conditions of production; figures; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; information forms; inorganic material; lighting devices; lighting devices by form; materials; materials by composition; materials by origin; modern and contemporary art; objects; objects we use; people and occupations; publications; serials; skeleton and skeleton components; standing; text-based art; transportation; vehicles
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 925 x 1263
File Size: 160 KB
Record: 1983/2.44
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.44/1983_2.44rec1.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Latina/o Studies (49); 0 - Mora, f16 - Latino/a Art - paper study (17); All objects from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (344); Apocalypses (201); Arts of Mexico (157); Death and dying (500); Death personified (47); Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist movement (59); Monsters, demons, devils, and robots (128); Objects from Latin America (336); Political conflict (54); Satire (212); Social justice (347); Social justice and art 1929-1945 (59); War and the Underground (20)

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Full citation: "Calaveras Estranguladoras; Anonymous Mexican; possibly Leopoldo Mendez." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.44/1983_2.44rec1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 20, 2024.