La Fabrica de Henequen

Artist Alfredo Zalce (born Pátzcuaro, Mexico, 1908; died Morelia, Mexico, 2003)

Date1946

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 × 13 1/4 in. (27.9 × 33.7 cm)

ClassificationsPrint

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

Terms

industrial landscape
Lithograph

Object number1970.265.2

DescriptionImage of a factory for extracting and processing henequen (agave fiber). Men work on a two-tiered platform in the foreground. In the background workers are seen carrying bundles, seated talking, and inside a building with arched openings at the background right.

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