Couple with Woman Wearing Sombrero with UFW Symbol

Art Historical Context

In the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection, *Couple with Woman Wearingbrero with UFW Symbol stands as a poignant drawing created before 1998 by an unidentified artist associated with the Hourglass Prison Art Museum. This work depicts a figure group featuring a woman in a sombrero emblazoned with the iconic United Farm Workers (U) symbol—likely the black Aztec eagle—alongside a couple, incorporating symbolic elements like a butterfly,, eyewear, hat, and mask. These motifs evoke themes of identity, time, transformation, and perhaps veiled expression, common in prison art where personal ...