Despojo de la tierra a los Yaquis. (El ejército de Don Porfirio al servicio de las empresas yanquis)
Date: 1945
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions (cm.): 21.6 x 30.3
Alternate titles: Despojo de la tierra; Despojo de la tiera en las comunidades indígenas yaquis
Published edition:
Portfolio Estampas de la revolución mexicana: 500 copies, numbered 1-500 and 50 copies numbered I-L, printed commercially by Editorial Galatea and published by La Estampa Mexicana under the direction of Hannes Meyer. The prints were printed from the original linoleum blocks on bond paper , 36 kg., of various colors (white, pink, orange, blue, green). The album cover was printed on gray (ceniza) corsican cardstock, 182 kgs. Sheet dimensions 30.2 x 40.5.
Additional impressions of the individual prints from the portfolio were hand-pulled at the TGP. Number of impressions unknown.
A photomechanical reproduction, printed by offset, was included in the 1960 TGP portfolio 450 años de lucha: Homenaje al pueblo mexicano.
Contemporary publication: Information to be added
Principal references: Academia de Artes 1895; Exposición de Homenaje 459; Méndez INBA 81; Prignitz 630
Selected additional references (illustrated): Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 263; Heller 1999, 32; Prignitz-Poda 2018, ch. 5; Ricker 2015, 288
Selected public collections: AA; IAGO; LACMA; McNay; MFAB; MMA; MNCARS; MNW; MUNAE; SUL
Cataloging note: The portfolio Estampas de la Revolucion Mexicana included an historical note by Alberto Morales Jiménez for each print, in Spanish. The note for this print states:
Jose María Leyva, “Cajeme,” led the Yaqui people of Sonora in the struggle to defend the lands of Bacatete and the Mayo Valley. The Porfirian regime persecuted these honorable and battle-hardened campesinos with unprecedented ferocity; through their sacrifice, they set an example of patriotism that will remain unchanged throughout our history. The Mexican Revolution has done full justice to the Yaquis by returning to them the properties that had always belonged to them.
Related prints: This is one of the seven linocuts by Méndez included in the portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana.
Nota de catalogación: La carpeta Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana incluía una nota histórica de Alberto Morales Jiménez para cada grabado. La nota para este grabado dice:
Jose María Leyva, “Cajeme”, dirigió a los yaquis de Sonora en la lucha por la defensa de las tierras de Bacatete y del Valle del Mayo. El porfirismo persiguió con saña inaudita a estos honrados y aguerridos campesinos, quienes dieron con su sacrificio un ejemplo de patriotismo que permanecerá inalterable a lo largo de toda nuestra historia. La Revolución Mexicana ha hecho plena justicia a los yaquis al devolverles propiedades que siempre habían sido suyas.
Obras relacionadas: Esta es una de las siete linoleografías de Méndez incluidas en la carpeta Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana.
Catalogue record number: 166