Mexican Laborer
Artist
John Williams Taylor
(American, 1897 - 1983)
Dateca. 1940
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (18.11 × 13.03 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. S. Herman Shurin in memory of Nisson Maurice Shurin
Object number43-3
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelThe Great Depression may have influenced this lithograph by John Williams Taylor. As the economic hardship of the 1930s hit the United States, depictions of toiling Mexican peasants gained popularity. As the world rapidly changed around them, many Americans valued these images as symbols of a simpler world. Taylor’s laborer, with his knees and back bent under the weight of his load of adobe bricks, may also represent the great burdens borne by Mexico’s working class.
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William Earle Williams
2001, printed 2003
2008.67.8
