Cakewalk" / Carmen Lomas Garza 1983." – Historic Print
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Cakewalk" / Carmen Lomas Garza 1983." comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cakewalk" / Carmen Lomas Garza 1983."
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A cakewalk, a party game in which couples march around a ring of numbered spaces until the music stops, gives this print its title and its lively center. Carmen Lomas Garza, a Chicana artist raised in Kingsville, Texas, made the 1983 work as a scene of Mexican American community life, tied here to a fundraising party for the American G.I. Forum, a veterans' civil rights organization founded in Texas in 1948. This impression is numbered 57 of 100 and signed and dated in pencil, and it shows how Lomas Garza recorded gatherings where games, food and community organizing happened side by side.
| Created / published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and aquatint ; 56 x 71 cm. |
| Genre | Genre prints 1980-1990.Etchings 1980-1990.Aquatints 1980-1990. |
| Notes | 57/100. DLC Signed and dated in pencil. DLC Title from item. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2002:013. |
| Subjects | American G.I. Forum--1980-1990. Mexican Americans--Social life--1980-1990. Parties--1980-1990. Fund raising--1980-1990. Games--1980-1990. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,062 × 4,103 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225199 |
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