Detail View: The AMICA Library: El Ahorcado (The Hanged One)
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AMICA ID:
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DMA_.1943.9
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AMICA Library Year:
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2003
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Object Type:
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Sculpture
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Creator Name:
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Medellin, Octavio
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Mexican, 1907 - 1999
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Octavio Medellin
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Title:
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El Ahorcado (The Hanged One)
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1942
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Creation Start Date:
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1940
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Creation End Date:
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1944
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Materials and Techniques:
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Black walnut
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 42 x 10 1/2 x 10 in. (106.68 x 26.67 x 25.4 cm.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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Dallas Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Dallas, Texas, USA
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ID Number:
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1943.9
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Credit Line:
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Dallas Museum of Art, Kiest Memorial Purchase Prize, Fourteenth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, 1943
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Rights:
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Context:
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Darge received his training at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked in commercial illustration until the onset of the Great Depression. He came to Texas in the early 1930s and spent the remainder of his life capturing the culture and history of central Texas and the Big Bend Country. "Survival of the Fittest "captures the clarity and heat of the West Texas landscape as well as the precarious existence of its inhabitants. In a face-off with the snake, the roadrunner has momentarily forgotten its prey, the grasshopper, who may be the ultimate survivor in that harsh environment.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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DMA_.1943_9.tif
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