Huida a Egipto (Flight into Egypt)

1950

Federico Cantú

Associated Names
Federico Cantú

Artist, Mexican, 1907 - 1989

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30 × 40.4 cm (11 13/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 64 × 48 cm (25 3/16 × 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1952.8.114

More About this Artwork

This is a black-and-white photograph of a rocky landscape with a patch of scrubland stretching out into the distance. Closest to us, on the left side, a tall rocky mountain rises up. Standing on the rocks is a woman with her back to us. She has long, dark, straight hair that falls down her back, and she is wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt and a wide white skirt. In her left hand, she appears to hold a rope, or perhaps her hand is tangled in her long hair. In her right hand, she holds a large square object with a handle that looks like a radio or similar device. She stands behind tall, dark gray leafy plants. On the right, the background reveals a vast open terrain dotted with small shrubs under a light gray sky.

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2024

  • "American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at right center: FC; below image, at left, in graphite: 28 pruebas, orden alfabéticos - / A/Z; below image, at center, in graphite: Huida a Egipto -; below image, at right, in graphite: Federico Cantú / 1950; verso: at bottom left, in graphite: Cantú, Federico

Markings

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Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q65223141