Plate 75: the traitor Saturnino Cedillo agent of the foreign petroleum companies, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Taller de Gráfica Popular|Alfredo Zalce

1947 · Linocut · Drawings and Prints

Plate 75: the traitor Saturnino Cedillo agent of the foreign petroleum companies, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution) — Taller de Gráfica Popular|Alfredo Zalce

See comment for 1993.1133.1–85. Saturnino Cedillo was a revolutionary general who supported the progressive president Lázaro Cárdenas but gradually became estranged from him. This print visualizes the support that foreign capitalists gave Cedillo, en-couraging him to take up arms against Cárdenas. In May 1938, Cedillo rose in revolt and was killed.

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