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Primary Everardo Ramírez (Coyoácan, Mexico, 1906–Mexico City, Mexico, 1992)

NationalityMexican, North America

Date1947

MediumWoodcut

DimensionsSheet: 15 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (39.4 × 28.9 cm)
Image: 7 5/8 × 6 3/16 in. (19.3 × 15.7 cm)

Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, University Purchase, 1966; Transfer from the Harry Ransom Center, 1982.1152

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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings

Object number1982.1152

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Everardo Ramírez studied at one of the Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre [Open Air Painting Schools], which were founded in Mexico in the 1920s to break away from academic training in favor of more innovative teaching methods. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular [People’s Graphic Workshop] and was also affiliated with the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios [League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists]. Inspired by his rural upbringing, Ramírez focused the subject matter of his prints on the rural workers who bettered society by making bricks, doing construction, cutting stone, and growing crops.