Tortilleras

Artist Jean Charlot (born Paris, France, 1898; died Honolulu, Hawaii, 1979)

Printer Lawrence Barrett (born Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1897; died Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1973)

Datecirca 1947

MediumLithograph on paper

DimensionsImage Overall: 13 1/2 × 9 7/8 in. (34.3 × 25.1 cm)
Sheet Overall: 17 × 13 in. (43.2 × 33 cm)
Mat Overall: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

ClassificationsPrint

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

Terms

figurative
Lithograph

Object number1970.126.2

DescriptionA woman, with a baby wrapped in a shawl on her back, kneels behind a metate (grinding stone) rolling out tortillas with a mano (hand stone). Another child kneels next to her on the right folding a tortilla. The image is stylized: images and objects are flattened and angular with minimal details.

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