Wounded Soldier

Painting

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Wounded Soldier

Entry/Object ID

1999.01

Description

Wounded man tended by kneeling woman in foregound, two cloaked figures in upper right, somber palette in browns, greens and yellow ochres. Rivera, borrowed the technique of painting on tin from Latin American tradition of Retablos or religious paintings made in small villages as devotional images.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on tin

Acquisition

Accession

1999.01

Source or Donor

Robert Henry Adams Fine Art

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, in honor of DePaul University Centennial Anniversary

Notes

In Honor of DePaul's Centennial Anniversary

Made/Created

Artist

Rivera, Diego

Date made

1931

Place

Country

Mexico

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Mexico

Region

Central America

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

figurative art, art genres, religious art

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Religious art objects, Villages, Village life

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image

Width

13-3/4 in

Length

12 in

Dimension Description

FRAME

Dimension Notes

Size: 19X20.5X31/8" Unit: 1

Exhibition

Fires Will Burn: Politically Engaged Art from the Permanent Collection