Object Details
- Artist
- Jorge Soto Sánchez, born New York, NY 1947-died White River Junction, VT 1987
- Exhibition Label
- In the early 1970s, Soto Sánchez saw Francisco Oller’s El Velorio (1893), an iconic Puerto Rican painting that depicts a baquiné, a folk Catholic custom that commemorates the death of a child. On the island this tradition resonates with African diasporic belief systems. Soto Sánchez’s version takes place in New York City and is populated by figures that sprout heads from joints and other parts of their bodies. These mutating forms are visual manifestations of ritualized spirit possession central to Santeria. Soto Sánchez formed part of a community of diasporic Puerto Rican artists who, unlike many cultural elites on the island, affirmed the importance of Afro-Puerto Rican culture.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © Hermiñia Ramos
- 1974, revised 1984
- Object number
- 2013.60.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Graphic Arts-Print
- Medium
- hand-colored screenprint
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 25 7/8 x 39 7/8 in. (65.7 x 101.3 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group
- Cityscape\New York
- Architecture Interior
- Record ID
- saam_2013.60.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk73c4db987-53a7-4445-97e8-85e669dceefa
