Lucy Ode Parson

Print

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Lucy Ode Parson

Entry/Object ID

2001.03.02

Type of Print

Woodcut

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper

Acquisition

Accession

2001.03

Source or Donor

PEP Permanent Collection Fund

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Permanent Collection Fund

Made/Created

Artist

Carlos Koyokuikatl Cortéz

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Woodcut

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Relief

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

44 x 32

Height

30 in

Width

20 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

In portraying workers and peasants, Cortéz sought to instruct and inspire the Hispanic community and, he hoped, the disenfranchised everywhere. Purdue has one of Cortéz’s best-known images, “Joe Hill” – one of his many large linocut poster-portraits of activists. Notice the prominence of the figure’s hands on his accordion and the integration of text, “Joe Hill murdered by the . . . mine owners . . . to silence his songs,” and overt calls to action.