Maternity

© Siqueiros David Alfaro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico

Maternity

Currently not on view

Maternity,

1973

David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1896–1974; born Santa Rosalía de Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico; died Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
1996-7

Information

Title
Maternity
Dates

1973

Maker
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 52 x 68 cm (20 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.) sheet: 57 x 74.2 cm (22 7/16 x 29 3/16 in.) frame: 79 × 97.8 × 3.5 cm (31 1/8 × 38 1/2 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
1996-7
Place Made

North America, Mexico

Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower left: DA Siqueros
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: 53/100
Marks/Labels/Seals
Lower left: Chop marks (of Editions Press, S.F. and printer [Ernest F. de Soto?])
Culture
Mexican
Type
color lithographs, prints
Materials
wove paper
Techniques
lithographic engraving (printing process)
Subject
figures (representations), women, shrouds, children (people by age group)

David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, Santa Monica, CA and New Smyrna Beach, FL, by 1995; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1995.

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