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Salmo 78, from Los Salmos (The Psalms)

(American, born in Puerto Rico, born in 1939)
(Nicaraguan, born in 1925)
1971
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut with calligraphy
DimensionsSheet: 32 x 43.2 cm (12 5/8 x 17 in.)
Credit LineGift of Efraín Barradas in memory of María Mercedes Dalmaude Sánchez
Accession number2009.4357
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsRecto, in graphite, below: 100/200 Martorell; printed calligraphy on sheet: La sangre de tu pueblo se derramó en las calles y corrió por las cunetas y se fué por las alcantarillas. Ernesto Cardenal Salmo 78
ProvenanceThe artist; given to Efraín Barradas; by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: September 16, 2009)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.