Untitled (Máximo Pacheco Painting, Tina Modotti Calling Out)
Artist:
Tina Modotti
(Italian, 1896 - 1942)
Artist (after): after
Máximo Pacheco
(Mexican, 1907 - 1992)
Date: ca. 1926
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 4 3/8 × 6 3/8 in. (11.1 × 16.2 cm)
Paper: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Mat: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter Glusker, MD in memory of his mother, Anita Brenner
Object number: 2003.18.14
Inscribed: On reverse, in pencil: "Tina"
Provenance: Anita Brenner Collection
Label Text
The work depicted in this photograph, by Máximo Pacheco (1907–1992), is likely a study for a mural. Pacheco, Diego Rivera (1886–1957), and José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) were among the noted artists in the same social circle as Tina Modotti; all commissioned the photographer to document their mural commissions. Pacheco, like his contemporaries, including Modotti, was immersed in the political fervor of the day, which informed his subject matter. In 1926, when Modotti’s partner, Edward Weston, left Mexico, she joined the Communist party and her photographs became more political. Due to her affiliations with the party, in 1930, she was expelled from Mexico. After her expulsion, she gave up photography.
(Erin Murphy, 2017)
(Erin Murphy, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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