Seated Yucatan Woman

Seated Yucatán Woman
Artist Francisco Zúñiga
Year 1973
Type Bronze
Dimensions 105.4 cm × 89.9 cm × 114.0 cm (​41 1⁄2 in × ​35 3⁄8 in × ​44 7⁄8 in)
Location Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates 38°53′21″N 77°01′22″W / 38.889117°N 77.022683°W / 38.889117; -77.022683
Owner Smithsonian Institution

Seated Yucatán Woman is a bronze sculpture, by Francisco Zúñiga.[1] It is an edition of four, one of which is located at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[2]

The artist depicts the grace and dignity of peasant women in Mexico.[3]

According to Ariel Zuñiga, the correct title of the piece is Juchiteca sentada (Seated Juchiteca).[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Seated Yucatan Woman, (sculpture)". Siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
  2. ↑ "Collection Search - Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian". Hirshhorn.si.edu. 2010-12-07. Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
  3. ↑ A Garden for Art, Valerie J. Fletcher, OCLC 97-61991, p.59
  4. ↑ "Images of sculpture from The Hirshhorn Sculpture Gardens-page 7. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College". Bluffton.edu. Retrieved 2015-03-11.


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