Object number:
2010.54.6986
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
El Teatro Campesino in La Carpa de los Rasquachis
Maker:
Jose Guadalupe Posada
Date made:
circa 1974
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 22.5 in, W: 17.5 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in black. The top of the poster has the text in black: "El Teatro Campesino / in/ La Carpa De Los Raquachis / (The Tent of the Underdogs)". The bottom of the poster has a stylized drawing in black of a line of figures walking; men, women, and children. Many of the figures in the drawing are wearing wide brimmed hats, have bed rolls tied to their backs, and are walking with long sticks. [This play, writen by Luis Valdez, premiered in 1974. -LMC]
Concepts:
child; bed roll; traveler; tent; male; hat; female
Organizations:
El Teatro Campesino
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