Garcia Lorca
1962
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lithograph in rose and brown on Nacre paper
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.2169.4
Art Historical Context
Antonio Frasconi's *Garcia Lorca* (1962) is a poignant lithograph honoring the Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whose surrealist works and tragic during the Spanish Civil War artists worldwide. Frasconi, a Uruguayan-born American printmaker renowned for his bold, expressive style influenced by folk art and social realism, often paid tribute to literary figures through his prints. Created in the 1960s amid a resurgence of fine art printmaking, this piece reflects the era's fascination with cross-cultural humanism and remembrance. Printed in subtle rose and brown inks on luxur...
About the Artist
Antonio Frasconi · 1919–2013
Antonio Frasconi (1919–2013) was a Uruguayan-American artist renowned for his masterful woodcuts, which blended bold graphic power with poignant social commentary. Born on April 28, 1919, aboard a ship between Argentina and Uruguay to Italian immigrant parents, he was raised in poverty in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his mother worked as a seamstress and restaurant manager to support him and his two...