Danza de la Dos Muertos

Drawing

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Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Danza de la Dos Muertos

Entry/Object ID

1995.12.20

Acquisition

Accession

1995.12

Source or Donor

Edward Stowe Akeley

Credit Line

Courtesy of Edward Stowe Akeley

Source (if not Accessioned)

Edward Stowe Akeley

Made/Created

Artist

Guillermo Meza

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Drawing

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

37-1/2 in

Width

27-1/2 in

Exhibition

Arte para el pueblo: Reclaiming Our Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (2020)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Object Label

Label

Danza de la Dos Muertos Guillermo Meza (1917-1997) Pencil, 1948

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"Guillermo Meza Alvarez was the son an Indian tailor from Tlaxcala. Artist Diego Rivera arranged for his first one man show in 1940. Meza’s work variably served as a criticism of society, an intellectual revolt against convention, and an affirmation of imaginative freedom. He worked with dance academies and performers on a number of occasions. "