Profesora María Salud Morales
Date: 1939
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions (cm.): 29.2 x 20.6
Alternate titles: Unknown
Published edition:
In portfolio En nombre de Cristo... han asesinado más de 200 maestros. Editorial Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, 1939
Unknown number of impressions outside the edition printed on loose sheets.
Contemporary publication: see published edition, above
References: Exposición de Homenaje 360, Prignitz 400
Commentary: Profesora María Salud Morales was the only image of the death of woman schoolteacher in En nombre de Cristo. Three people carry her lifeless body, one of whom appears to be a woman, perhaps another teacher. Her body is foreshortened in a diagonal composition, with her beautiful face toward the viewer and her long hair flowing downward. She was killed on the 16th of June in Rancho de Santa Rita, Tecario, Michoacán, by fanatic Cristeros who attacked her in the street with sticks and stones. Here Méndez, as he often did, makes use of Catholic imagery in this secular image reminiscent of the martyrdom of a saint or the death of Christ. (Deborah Caplow)
Catalogue record number: 245
