R cigarro, R barril

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R cigarro, R barril

2002

Marta Sanchez (American, born 1959) Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia

Sanchez collaborated with tejana poet Norma E. Cantú, drawing inspiration from their Mexican ancestry, to create this print. The train yard (depicted in the background) has played an important historical role as a thoroughfare for Mexican migration as well as a source of immigrant labor. The prominently placed circus performer calls to mind the vaudeville-type performances known as carpas that traveled via train in Mexico and the southwestern United States in the early twentieth century.

Starting at top left, the Spanish text translates: Waiting for the train lives come to lives / trains follow tracks leading to ends and beginnings as we come and go from here to there and from there to here / We know life as a railroad track leading to ends and beginnings / coming and going the engine hums a lullaby the reassuring whistle in the night.

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Object Details

Titles:

R cigarro, R barril

Date:

2002

Artists:

Marta Sanchez (American, born 1959) Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia

Medium:

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions:

Image and sheet: 29 15/16 x 21 3/8 inches (76 x 54.3 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Gift of the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt, 2009

Accession Number:

2009-61-73

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