Masons
<p>O’Higgins, the workshop’s premier lithographer, focused in many works on the theme of urban construction workers, portraying them as active and attentive to their tasks, if not heroic, in order to stress their role in the ongoing effort to build a new society in the postrevolutionary period.</p> <p><strong>Español:</strong><br>O’Higgins, el principal litógrafo del Taller, abordó en muchas de sus obras el tema de los albañiles. Los representó activos y concentrados en sus tareas, cuando no heroicos, para subrayar el papel que desempeñaban en el continuo esfuerzo en pro de la construcción de una nueva sociedad durante el periodo posrevolucionario.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1942
- Dimensions
- Image: 35.2 × 26.5 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 48.4 × 36.8 cm (19 1/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Pablo O'Higgins
Artist
Printmaking
Pablo O'Higgins was a Mexican painter and muralist active in the postwar period, known for large-scale public commissions that engaged themes of labor, indigenous culture, and social reform. Working primarily in fresco and oil, his work aligned with the Mexican muralism movement's commitment to accessible, politically engaged public art. This profile will be expanded as more verified source material becomes available.
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Foreign City (Ciudad ajena) from AGPA 73: Pan American Graphic Arts (AGPA 73: Artes gráficas panamericanas)
1973 · Lithograph from a portfolio of 11 screenprints (one with embossing), seven etchings (three with aquatint, one with embossing), six lithographs (one with etching), five linoleum cuts (one with embossing), one engraving, and one intaglio with embossing
Workers Eating (Obreros comiendo)
1950 · Lithograph
The Market (Cuautla, State of Morelos), from Mexican People
1946 · Color lithograph on cream wove paper
The Brick-Makers (Sta. Cruz section, Federal District), from Mexican People
1946 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Portrait
1943 · Lithograph on paper
Man of the Twentieth Century
1943 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
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- Pablo O'Higgins
- Year
- 1942
- Dimensions
- Image: 35.2 × 26.5 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 48.4 × 36.8 cm (19 1/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1942-088495
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified