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Ester Hernandez
born Dinuba, California 1944
La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los Xicanos
1975
etching and aquatint on paper
La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los Xicanos reimagines the Virgin as a modern, karate-kicking woman breaking out of her sunburst. In Mexico, the Virgin's image has been used to "defend" against plagues and famines, and to advance political causes, like the quest for Mexican independence from Spain. Hernandez's print rejects the Virgin's usual placid pose and functions instead as a self-portrait. Hernandez was one of the earliest Chicana artists in the mid-1970s to create works that question the marginalization of women in the early Chicano movement.
Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2013.56 |