Sleep

Date1932

Maker Diego Rivera Mexican, 1886-1957

Label TextRivera, together with his fellow Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, influenced artists working for the American Public Works of Art Project and the Works Progress Administration during the years of the Great Depression—their works engaged themes of nationalism and sociopolitical issues. This work offers an intimate glimpse at the lives of the working-class families in Mexico during times of great economic hardship. A family, huddled together in sleep, is surrounded by a sea of people also looking for respite.

Object number44.619

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Arte Grafica, Mexican Prints and Photographs, July 14, 1994 - Oct. 9,1994. Eugene, Oregon, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Nuestra imagen actual: Mexico and the Graphic Arts 1925-1950, Oct. 3, 2020 - Feb. 14, 2021. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensionsmatted: 20" x 24"

MediumLithograph