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Title
Calaveras De Azucar
Creator
Valdez, Patssi, Artist
Contributor
Valdez, Patssi, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1992-10-16
1992-10-20
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
Published in: Two grinning skulls, one female (yellow head encircled by blue beads where neck would normally be, matching blue earrings, shoulder length hair) and one male (bow tie in place of neck, short red hair, green face) sit upon a circular table top with three smaller skulls in party hats, a bottle of liquor and two cocktail glasses. The images are surrounded by red and green crosses and colorful swirling designs
Contributing Institution
UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection
Self-Help Graphics and Art archives
Rights Information
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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
Colors used: 1. Trans Lt Yell (sic.), 2. Trans Blue, 3. Trans Red, 4. Trans Violet, 5. Trans Magenta. "This print is depicting the celebration of the dead." P. Valdez;
Atelier 20; Coventry Rag, 290 grms; I-size: 34" x 25"; P-size: 34" x 25"; Ed#: 43/55, unknown ed.; Signed;, Inscription in pencil blending within the patterns at bottom reads: "Calaveras de Azucar, 43/55, Patssi Valdez" ; chopmark: embossed "SHG" insignia located in lower left corner inside image area.
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From East L.A.
Type
image
Form/Genre
Screen Prints
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9z09p445
CEMA 3
Language
English
Subject
All Souls' Day
Skull in art
Crosses in art
Sugar skulls
Día de los muertos
Mexican American art
Chicana art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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