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Taxco

Taxco

Primary TitleThe Woodcut Society
Artist Ray Bethers (American, 1902 - 1973)
Dateca. 1932
MediumWood engraving on paper
DimensionsSight: 4 × 4 7/8 inches (10.16 × 12.38 cm)
Framed: 20 × 15 inches (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Woodcut Society
Object number35-35/52
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Ray Bethers traveled widely during the 1930s creating billboards aimed at potential tourists. However, he could also capture the spirit of a place in small scale works like this one. A trip in 1932 inspired this woodcut of Taxco de Alarcón, a former silver-mining center on the side of a mountain in southern Mexico. Using incredibly finely cut lines and delicate crosshatching, Bethers described the whitewashed adobe houses with tiled roofs that line the town’s steep, narrow alleys


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