Angel Woman, Sonora
Original Language TitleMujer Ángel, Sonora
Artist
Graciela Iturbide
(Mexican, born 1942)
Date1979; printed 2003
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 × 12 7/16 inches (22.23 × 31.59 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 inches (27.62 × 35.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 inches (27.62 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jay H. McDonald, in appreciation of Jean McDonald Deacy
Object number2003.38.4
SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Graciela Iturbide"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a woman (seen from the back) with long hair and a long skirt walking down a hill while holding a radio/tape player in her right hand; she's aproaching an unpopulated desert landscape with low lying mountains along the horizon.Exhibition HistoryTreasure of Mexico in Kansas City. The Consulate of Mexico, Kansas City, MO, April 16 – July 16, 2012, no cat.
Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.
Graciela Iturbide photographed this scene in Punta Chueca, a community near the Arizona border with only 500 people. Here, a Mexican Seri woman moves through the desert carrying a portable cassette player so she can listen to music. Former nomads, the Seri people are indigenous to the Mexican state of Sonora. For Graciela Iturbide, this photograph represents “the transition between their traditional way of life, and the way capitalism has changed it.”
Jay MacDonald, Santa Monica, CA;
Given by Jay MacDonald to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2003.
Given by Jay MacDonald to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2003.
Copyright© Graciela Iturbide
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