Farm Workers

 

Emmanuel C. Montoya

  1952 - PRESENT (biography)

1986  

color linocut 

14 x 15" image size 

pencil, lower right 

A/P 

dated beneath signature; dedicated in lower left: para mis / amigos / Seymour y Millie / Kaplan / con respect / y carino / Emmanuel 

 

soft, antique-white laid 

 

artist 

PAKA121 

$400.00 

Farm Workers depicts the plight of all farmworkers, bending all day under a blazing sun as they harvest crops for the voracious American marketplace. Organized farmworkers are visible at the edge of the field picketing for a united farmworkers union with fair pay and decent working conditions while scabs, brought in by the large growers, pick the fields. Seymour Kaplan (1919-2011) , to whom this work is dedicated, was a printmaker who studied at Mexico City College in 1949 and later worked at El Taller de Grafica Popular in Mexico City.