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Leonard Castellanos, RIFA, from Méchicano 1977 Calendario, 1976, screenprint on paperboard, sheet and image: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.53.1, © 1976, Leonard Castellanos
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Artwork Details
- Title
- RIFA, from Méchicano 1977 Calendario
- Artist
- Date
- 1976
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1976, Leonard Castellanos
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- screenprint on paperboard
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Keywords
- Portrait male
- Dress — accessory — sombrero
- Object Number
- 2012.53.1
Exhibitions
November 20, 2020–August 8, 2021
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.