Alberto Beltrán- "Grinding Sugar Cane from Mexican People"
Entry/Object ID
2016.0809.06
Description
Alberto Beltrán, "Grinding Sugar Cane (Cuetzalan, State of Puebla) from Mexican People, 1946, lithograph print of a drawing, print also in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
A man sitting before a simple mule powered sugar grinder, feeding in stalks of cane from a pile beside him, two people harvesting cane behind him
genre picture with Mexican workers grinding sugar cane in a large machine driven by horse