Object Details
- Artist
- Scherezade García, born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1966
- Exhibition Label
- García’s lushly painted and drawn works evoke the tragic yet hopeful stories that spur migration. Her angelic mestizo (racially mixed) figures are archetypes of the people of the Americas. In Santo Trujillo is Dead, García refers to the assassination of the director Rafael Trujillo in 1961, which led to the first major exodus of Dominicans to the United States. García’s wounded but still standing angel celebrated the possibility of a better future.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the R.P. Whitty Company and the Cooperating Committee on Architecture
- Copyright
- © 2006, Scherezade García
- 2006
- Object number
- 2013.28.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- acrylic, charcoal, ink, and sequins on paper
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure
- Religion\saint
- Record ID
- saam_2013.28.2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk740b10c1d-aa55-4a58-a651-789ae86044d2
