Mariposas en Patyenaro
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1950
label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Crane, Alan
notes: label: Description
content: With the lucrative growth of tourism in 20th century, stereotypical and processed images of Mexico have often been marketed to the American imagination. In them, "South of the Border" becomes a sunny pre-modern place of vacations, trinkets, and convenient lawlessness. But contrasting and complex images of Mexico have pervaded the American imagination since well before the Civil War. Mexico, itself defined by cultural and racial exchange, has historically represented a starkly different social order to most Americans. A country with cheap land and labor and bountiful mineral and agricultural resources offered economic opportunities to many Americans, from white financiers and mercenaries to black oil workers and baseball players. Mexico was also a refuge for many American artists, of Mexican descent or otherwise, who imagined Mexico in different ways. Some artists sought inspiration from its ancient history, and others came looking for a pristine and exotic landscape. This lithograph, titled <i>Mariposas at Patyenaro</i> was drawn by Alan Crane in 1943. It depicts the picturesque, butterfly-shaped nets of Mexican fisherman paddling their canoes on a lake. Alan Horton Crane (1901–1969) was a Brooklyn-born illustrator best known for his landscapes and genre scenes of life in Mexico and New England. Similar prints by Crane showing scenes of idyllic Mexico are housed in the Graphic Arts Collection of the National Museum of American History.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Con el lucrativo crecimiento del turismo en el siglo XX, se intensificó la comercialización de imágenes estereotípicas y procesadas de México dirigidas al consumo de los estadounidenses. México se convirtió en un soleado paraje premoderno para pasar vacaciones, comprar baratijas y disfrutar de una conveniente anarquía. Pero ya mucho antes de la Guerra Civil, México había penetrado la imaginación americana mediante contrastantes y complejas imágenes. México, en si mismo definido por el intercambio cultural y racial, ha representado históricamente un orden social completamente diferente para la mayoría de los americanos. Un país que ofrece tierra y mano de obra baratas, junto a generosos recursos mineros y agrícolas, ha brindado oportunidades económicas a muchos estadounidenses, desde financieros y mercenarios blancos hasta trabajadores del petróleo y beisbolistas negros. Pero México también pasó a ser un refugio para muchos artistas americanos de descendencia mexicana o viceversa, quienes se imaginaron a México de diversas formas. Algunos artistas buscaban inspiración en su pasado histórico y otros deseaban explorar paisajes prístinos y exóticos. Esta litografía titulada <i>Mariposas en Patyenaro</i> es un dibujo de Alan Crane de 1943. Representa las pintorescas redes en forma de mariposas de los pescadores mexicanos, remando sus canoas en un lago. Alan Horton Crane (1901-1969) era un ilustrador nacido en Brooklyn conocido por sus paisajes y escenas de género sobre la vida cotidiana en México y Nueva Inglaterra. La Colección de Artes Gráficas del Museo Nacional de Historia Americana alberga grabados similares de Crane en los que se observan escenas de un México idílico.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
title: label: Title
content: Mariposas at Patyenaro
topic: label: Subject
content: Latino
label: Subject
content: Country Scenes
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Mexican America
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Alan H. Crane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.23830
label: catalog number
content: GA.23830
label: accession number
content: 306563
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: print; Planographic; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.7 cm x 35.3 cm; 9 23/32 in x 13 29/32 in