Existing comment:
Carlos A. Cortéz
born Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1923;
died Chicago, Illinois 2005
Joe Hill
1979
linocut on paper
Gift of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, 1995.50.8
Beginning in the 1940s, Cortéz created posters and political cartoons in support of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905. Here he depicts Joe Hill, an IWW labor activist and folk singer. Cortéz surrounds Hill with words that relay the details of his life and the lyrics of one of his songs urging workers to strike. |