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Silver Mine Worker

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
A miner, wearing a helmet, and carrying a torch in his left hand, faces the spectator. He stoops in the long archway of the mine tunnel.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Artist
Francisco Mora, Mexican, 1922–2002
Association
El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexican printmaking workshop, established 1937
Publisher
Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Date
1946
Credit Line
Gift of William J. Donald
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
Platemark: 28.4 × 35 cm (11 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 38.5 × 44.8 cm (15 3/16 × 17 5/8 in.)
Type
figures
Object Name
Print
Type
Print

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