Alice, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio

John M. Valadez, Alice, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio, ca. 1978, printed 2016, inkjet print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, 2017.8.2, © 1978, John M. Valadez
John M. Valadez, Alice, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio, ca. 1978, printed 2016, inkjet print, sheet and image: 16 × 24 in. (40.6 × 61.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, 2017.8.2, © 1978, John M. Valadez

Artwork Details

Title
Alice, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio
Date
ca. 1978, printed 2016
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet and image: 16 × 24 in. (40.6 × 61.0 cm)
Copyright
© 1978, John M. Valadez
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
Mediums Description
inkjet print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Portrait female — unidentified — Alice
  • Cityscape — California — Los Angeles
  • Dress — accessory — handbag
Object Number
2017.8.2

Works by this artist (1 item)

Edith Jaffy Kaplan, Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom...we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.--Montesquieu on the Nature of Liberty. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1951, brush and ink and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.137
Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom…
Date1951
brush and ink and gouache on paper
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