The Skeleton of the Buses
Medium
relief etching and letterpress
Dimensions
39.4 × 29.3 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift from funds of various donors to the Department of Prints and Drawings
Accession Number
2000.97
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About this artwork
A number of 20th-century Mexican artists admired José Guadalupe Posada for reaching a broad public through striking imagery and inexpensively printed works. Posada combined image and text in his depictions of social and political issues so that they were accessible to workers, many of whom were illiterate. This print is part of a series in which he used skeletons to humorously comment on current events, such as the danger of electric trams in Mexico City. A streetcar delivers passengers to the f...