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Title
Espíritu De Olvera Street
Creator
Limón, Leo, Artist
Contributor
Limón, Leo, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
1994-01
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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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
Description
Full bleed. "Indoor scene, door way with cross above it, large woman pointing at a cross with [her] hand. Boat on water with person rowing boat with passenger that is a giant heart with tic-tac-toe image on the inside on far right side is [a] deity Tezcatlipoca."
Colors used: 1. Magenta, 2. Primrose Yellow, 3. Cyan, 4. P (sic.) Ultra Marine Blue, 5. White, 6. Light Pink, 7. Ochre/Yellow, 8. Pink, 9. Red (Blue), 10. Light Brick Brown, 11. Ochre (light brown), 12. Orange yellow, 13. Green (Blue shade). "Olvera Street is a Mexican land mark (sic.) that gets my support - education the the masses on its struggle is shown by the woman pointing to the Olvera Street cross - the illustioinary landscape mothernature following behind her, the womans corazon been rowed toward the cross image and at the far right side I have put in the deity "Tezcatlipoca" as uducator with shield and pencils and as woman." L.Limón.
Atelier 24; Coventry Rag 290 grms; I-size: 17" x 22 1/2"; P-size: 17" x 22 1/2"; Ed#: 4/60, 20/60; Signed;, Inscription in pencil within the image reads: "Espíritu de Olvera Street, 4/60, Limón, 13x-94"print: José Alpuche; chopmark: embossed "SHG" within the image on the lower right.
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Type
image
Form/Genre
Screen Prints
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb8s20094m
CEMA 3
Language
Spanish
Subject
Women
Mexican Americans
Religion in art
Chicano art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Place
Los Angeles, (Calif.)

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