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Andrew Zermeño
born Salinas, California 1935
Huelga!
1966
offset lithograph on paper
Zermeño created Huelga! (meaning "strike" in Spanish) as his first poster for the United Farm Workers. Don Sotaco, the recurring figure in Zermeño's posters and political cartoons, is a representative striker whose honorific title "Don" (esteemed; sir) conveys respect. Dressed in tattered pants and with a hole in his shoe, Don Sotaco rushes forward with a sense of agency as well as urgency. "I was trying to show the spirit of the workers . . . who were attacking the status quo," Zermeño recalled. Brandishing a UFW flag proclaiming the strike, Don Sotaco --
and by extension the union -- calls for action from farmworkers and their supporters.
Gift of the Margaret Terrazas Santos Collection, 2019.52.1 |