Lydia! (also called: "Homage to Lydia Mendoza: La Reina Tejana") by Emmanuel C. Montoya

Lydia! (also called: Homage to Lydia Mendoza: La Reina Tejana) by Emmanuel C. Montoya

Lydia! (also called: "Homage to Lydia Mendoza: La Reina Tejana")

Emmanuel C. Montoya

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Title

Lydia! (also called: "Homage to Lydia Mendoza: La Reina Tejana")

 
Artist

Emmanuel C. Montoya

  1952 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2008  
Technique
screenprint 
Image Size
22 7/8 x 14 7/8" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
27 of 45  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
cream BFK Rives France 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23226 
Price
$300.00 
Description

This is a reduced size screenprint Montoya did in 2008, based on a large 1990 linocut (56 x 36") he did of the same subject, San Antonio born Norteño musician Lydia Mendoza. The composition was based on a 1985 photograph the artist took of her in San Francisco’s Mission District as she performed one night at the Galeria de la Raza.

Lydia Mendoza (American: May 31, 1916 - December 20, 2007) was a Texas-born Tejano and conjunto musician known as "La Alondra de la Frontera" (the Lark of the Border). She learned to play guitar and sing from her grandmother and mother and began touring with her family's group, Cuartero Carta Blanca, at age eleven. Mendoza is considered the first Tejano musician to gain fame for her recorded music in North America, as well as the first woman in the Tejano world to perform solo.

Mendoza's breakthrough came in 1934 with the recording and airing of her song "Mal Hombre," a tango, which shot her to stardom overnight and set into motion her lifelong touring career. For over 60 years she continued to perform, even following a stroke in 1988, and she was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lifetime Achievement Award by Folk Alliance International, and a Texas Medal of Arts by the Texas Cultural Trust.

Mendoza died on December 20, 2007, at age 91.

 

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