Plate 4: disgruntled campesinos being exectued by firing squad, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Taller de Gráfica Popular|Arturo García Bustos

1947 · Linocut · Drawings and Prints

Plate 4: disgruntled campesinos being exectued by firing squad, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution) — Taller de Gráfica Popular|Arturo García Bustos

See comment for 1993.1133.1–85. This print deals with the devastating effects of the economic policies of President José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz on indigenous Mexicans. During Díaz’s seven terms as president (1876–1911), estate owners accumulated great wealth by exploiting rural workers barely able to make a living. The print shows government forces executing people who protested against the injustice. Repression and discrimination led to revolution in 1910.

Artist: Taller de Gráfica Popular|Arturo García Bustos
Date: 1947
Medium: Linocut
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Norman S. Rothschild, 1993