Head of a bearded man wearing a checkered cap
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1880–1910
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 5/8 × 3 1/16 in. (9.2 × 7.7 cm) Image: 1 1/16 × 1 3/8 in. (2.7 × 3.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960
Accession Number
60.678.48
Tags
Men
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada · 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...