A gun fight between those supporting the Agrarian cause and the military during the Mexican Revolution
Medium
Zincograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/16 in. (18 × 10.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jean Charlot, 1929
Accession Number
29.101.16
Tags
Art Historical Context
This dynamic zincograph, titled *A Gun Fight Between Those Supporting the Agrarian and the Military During the Revolution*, captures the chaos Mexico's 1910–1920 civil war. Created around 1911 by master printmaker José Guadalupe Posada it depicts armed agrarian rebels—champions of land reform against oppressive landowners and federal forces—clashing with mounted soldiers. Posada, a prolific artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, used his prints to document social upheavals, giving voice to the revolutionary fervor that reshaped Mexico under leaders like Emiliano Zapata. Printed on ...
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada|Jean Charlot · 1852–1913
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican printmaker and engraver who revolutionized popular art and created some of the most iconic images in Mexican culture. Working primarily with publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, he produced over 20,000 images during his career—inexpensive broadsheets sold for a penny on colored paper that made his art accessible to even the poorest workers. He transform...