¡Cesen Deportación!
1973
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 47.63 × 63.82 cm (18 3/4 × 25 1/8 in.) sheet: 50.8 × 66.04 cm (20 × 26 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gift of Richard Rodriguez)
Accession Number
2015.19.3031
Art Historical Context
¡Cesen Deportación! (Stop Deportation!), bold 1973 color screenprint by Rupert García captures the urgent cry of the Chicano civil rights movement. García, a pioneering Chicano artist based in San Francisco Bay Area, his work to confront social injustices, blending graphic design with political activism. This poster features stark imagery and emphatic Spanish text, rallying against the deportation of Mexican immigrants amid rising U.S. immigration enforcement in the early 1970s—a period marked by economic pressures and policies targeting undocumented workers. Screenprinting on wove paper allo...