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Vanegas Arroyo
Vanegas Arroyo
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Vanegas Arroyo

Artist José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852 - 1913)
Dateundated
MediumWoodcut
Dimensions9 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum collection, University Gallery transfer
Object numberPR-55-6
Collections
Visual DescriptionPeople in terror at an earthquake, with buildings falling.
Skeleton figure smoking a cigar, wearing a tuxedo coat, no pants, one boot, one sock, carrying a cane.
Untitled
José Guadalupe Posada
undated
Madonna figure with a crown on her head.
Madonna, Queen Figure
José Guadalupe Posada
undated
Running skeleton figure with knife; skeletons in background in festive dress; main figure/skeleton wearing large sombrero; black ink on red paper.
Calaveras del Montón (Skulls from the Heap)
José Guadalupe Posada
undated
Several sketches drawn and subsequently engraved; each represents a scene from an earthquake in Cuba - a street full of rubble and crumbling buildings, a wrecked village, a tidal wave, people cooking over an open fire in the street.
Recollections of a Cuban Earthquake
Frank Hamilton Taylor
1886
A diagonal view of a road lined with houses. The buildings are in disrepair, destroyed by a recent earthquake. Several figures sit and stand in the street and assess the damage. A goat and horse are also depicted.
After the Earthquake
Frank Hamilton Taylor
1880
A view down the street of a deserted and derelict town. Buildings are falling apart, piles of broken wood are in the street
Contemporary City
Nan Lurie
1936-1943
Two figures (young men in Arabic dress) playing chess. Arch of brick, falling apart, plants etc. growing out of it, a sheep lying down on top of it; Islamic tops of buildings in distance.
Graveyard Chess I
Thomas Handforth
1928
A slender carved wooden female figure wearing a red and green dress, a long beaded necklace with a medallion, and holding her hands near her chest.
Our Lady of Sorrows
Jose Benito Ortega
c. 1875 - 1907
A carved fragment of veined, pale stone featuring a bas-relief of multiple interacting nude figures. The irregular, rough-edged sculpture is mounted upright on a simple, rectangular grey base.
Young Narcissus
José de Creeft
1943
An abstract painting composed of intersecting black, grey, and dark blue shapes. A tan block containing a dark circle sits on the right.
Sagittarius
Jose Ignacio Bermudez
1958
A newspaper boy holds a stack of newspapers in his left arm, and shows one newspaper overhead in his right arm; a bustling city street in the background with many people on the sidewalk, cars in the street, and shop signs on the tall buildings.
Wuxtry!
Albert Abramovitz
c. 1935-1939
Waterfront with buildings and sailboat at a dock, trees behind stores, people along street and on the dock.
Back Bay
David Burke
1936-1943

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