Posada and Friends by James Todd

Posada and Friends by James Todd

Posada and Friends

James Todd

Title

Posada and Friends

 
Artist

James Todd

  1937 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2012  
Technique
woodcut with handcoloring 
Image Size
15 7/8 x 11 7/8" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 1  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
tan-tinted wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
JATO102 
Price
SOLD
Description

This hand colored woocut by Montana artist James Todd is an homage to the great Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) who may be best known for his "Calaveras", cavorting skeletons that came alive and mimicked every day life.

As the portrait of Posada stares directly into the viewer's eye while in the background an industrialist, a priest, a narcissist and three other calavaras peek over his shoulder.

Posada was one of the most productive illustrators ever, being credited with over 800 separate images. Since this impression is hand colored it is essentially unique, a monoprint, and is editioned 1/1.