[Posada, José Guadalupe, attributed]:

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LA HAMBRIENTA CALAVERA. A fine exemplar of the Mexican graphic arts movement, featuring a fearsome tarantula-scorpion-calavera and satirical verse alluding to General Victoriano Huerta as "Don Victoriano....Tragón como pocos pinches" (a glutton beyond compare). A striking image by Posada or possibly one of his immediate successors. José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was one of the most important (and popular) artists of late-19th-century Mexico. Working chiefly with publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, his some 20,000 images can be found in countless newspapers, chapbooks, and books, often in the form of satirical anti-governmental cartoons lifting up the poor and oppressed and critiquing the ruling class. Posada worked across numerous styles, though is now perhaps best known for seemingly naive (but quite sophisticated) depictions of current events that sought to undermine the supposed "order and progress" of Porfirio Díaz's presidency. He is equally well known for his "calaveras" (skulls and skeleton caricatures), which he did not invent, but popularized to such an extent that most modern depictions of Mexican skulls owe some debt to Posada. Called the Mexican Goya and Mexican Daumier, Posada influenced Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco along with other prominent muralists, and his impact on Mexican printmaking carries on today.We can locate just three copies of the present broadsheet in institutions: at Drew University, the New York Public Library, and the Art Institute of

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