Trabajando Con Ixtle

Artist Fernando Castro Pacheco (born Mérida, Mexico, 1918; died Mérida, Mexico, 2013)

Datecirca 1946

MediumLithograph

DimensionsOverall: 15 x 17 1/2 in. (38.1 x 44.5 cm)
Mat Overall: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Image Overall: 11 1/4 × 14 in. (28.6 × 35.6 cm)

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineCarolyn Schneider Collection, Gift of Col. and Mrs. A. H. Hooker

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figurative
Lithograph

Object number1970.216.3

DescriptionA woman stands at the left working with long cords of ixtle (agave fibers) that run over a tree branch and down to a loom set into the ground. Behind her on the right is a tent shelter with a woman and child seated in the entrance and a cactus to the left.

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