Antonio Frasconi
Uruguay, active United States
b. 1919

The Butcher (my turn), 1952
11 5/8 x 9 3/8 in.
Woodcut Print
Sweeney Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Gift of Henry W. Coil Jr.
96.1.84

Antonio Frasconi has been recognized as one of the foremost printmakers and masters of the woodcut medium. Born in Uruguay, he came to the United States in 1943, and had his first exhibition in 1948. He has written and illustrated numerous children's books, visually captured Walt Whitman's poetry in an award winning short film, and graphically interpreted many writers of our time. He is known for his compassionate renderings of common laborers and victims of political injustice and for his sense of humor and wit, aptly depicted here in The Butcher (my turn).

Books Written and/ or Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi:
* If The Owl Calls Again
* Platero and I/ Platero Y Yo
* The Wings of Courage
* Monkey Puzzle and Other Poems
* At Christmastime
* The Elephant and His Secret
* House that Jack Built
* Snow and the Sun
* Elijah the Slave
* One Little Room, an Everywhere: Poems of Love
* How the Left-Behind Beasts Built Ararat
* Kaleidoscope in Woodcuts
* Involvement: the graphic art of Antonio Frasconi

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