México en la guerra. Los braceros se van a Estados Unidos
(Collaboration with Alfredo Zalce)
Date: c. 1945-46
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions (cm.): 21.3 x 29.7
Alternate titles: Unknown
Published edition:
Portfolio Estampas de la revolución mexicana: 500 copies, numbered 1-500 and 50 copies numbered I-L, printed commercially by Editorial Galatea and published by La Estampa Mexicana under the direction of Hannes Meyer. The prints were printed from the original linoleum blocks on bond paper , 36 kg., of various colors (white, pink, orange, blue, green). The album cover was printed on gray (ceniza) corsican cardstock, 182 kgs. Sheet dimensions 30.2 x 40.5.
Additional impressions of the individual prints from the portfolio were hand-pulled at the TGP. Number of impressions unknown.
A photomechanical reproduction, printed by offset, was included in the 1960 TGP portfolio 450 años de lucha: Homenaje al pueblo mexicano.
Contemporary publication: Information to be added
References: Prignitz 707
Cataloging note: The portfolio Estampas de la revolucion mexicana included an historical note by Alberto Morales Jiménez for each print. The note for this print reads:
Tonto en los frentes de batalla, tal es el caso del Escuadrón 201, como en la retaguardia, Mexico cooperó para hacer posible el rotundo triunfo de las Naciones Unidas. Fiel a sus compromisos, nuestro Gobierno envió al vecino país del Norte a miles de campesinos procedentes de todas partes de la República, quienes trabajaron en los campos agrícolas estadounidenses que abastecieron a los soldados aliados en los frentes de batalla.
Catalogue record number: 170