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Title: Los De Abajo
Creator: Ortega, Tony, Artist
Contributor: Ortega, Tony, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1993-05-20
1993-05-22
Publication Information: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection: Self-Help Graphics and Art archives
Rights Information: Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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Description: Two trucks--one pink, one purple--are the central image before a deep green and light green background of rolling hills and grass. People load or unload the purple truck while others stop beside the pink truck, whose driving plate reads: "UFW" (United Farmers Workers). There is yellow sky with a small blue plane in the upper left-hand corner of the print.
Colors used: 1. Process cyan blue, 2. Process magenta, 3. Process Yellow, 4. Process Orange, 5. Process Violet, 6. Light Green, 7. Black. "'Los de Abajo' - the underdogs or the ones from below. Migrant workers are often see (sic.) as out of sight and not important, but the provide important work for our society, that is the colletion of our food. This peice is dedicated in memory of Cesar Chaves who help (sic.) the migrant worker. " T. Ortega
Atelier 23; Coventry Rag, 290 grms; I-size: 22 3/8" x 32 1/4"; P-size: 25 1/2" x 35"; Ed#: 4/58, 6/58; Signed;, Inscription in white below image area reads: "Los de Abajo, 4/58, Ortega, (c) copyright"
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Type: image
Form/Genre: Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb5w1007zs
CEMA 3
Language: Spanish
Subject: Farm Workers
Immigration
Chicano art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Chávez, Cesar, 1927-1993
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)

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