Ramon Orta del Rio murdered on 4 June 1938 in Barranca del Oro, Municipality of Amatlán de la Caña (Nayarit), from the portfolio 'En nombre de Cristo ...' (In the name of Christ)

Leopoldo Méndez|Juan P. Valdes

1939 · Medium unknown · Drawings and Prints

Ramon Orta del Rio murdered on 4 June 1938 in Barranca del Oro, Municipality of Amatlán de la Caña (Nayarit), from the portfolio 'En nombre de Cristo ...' (In the name of Christ) — Leopoldo Méndez|Juan P. Valdes

Each lithograph depicts the murder of a rural schoolteacher in Mexico and is accompanied on the facing folio by the name of the teacher, the place and date of the atrocity and a description of the circumstances. The title page records that more than 200 such teachers were killed.The inside of the title page carries a dedication from Méndez to the memory of Anibal Ponce. The subject is also treated in flyer by Méndez from a year earlier (see 46.46.386). The Met has two copies of this portfolio, both of which have slightly different information relating to its publication. The back cover of the present set is lettered 'Preparo Juan P. Valdes editorial grafica popular' and the back of the other set (40.47.3) reads ''Preparo e imprimio Juan P. Valdes editorial grafica popular'

Artist: Leopoldo Méndez|Juan P. Valdes
Date: 1939
Medium: Medium unknown
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946