Seated Yucatan Woman Explained

Seated Yucatán Woman
Artist:	Francisco Zúñiga
Year:	1973
Type:	Bronze
Height Metric:	105.4
Width Metric:	89.9
Length Metric:	114.0
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
City:	Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates:	38.8891°N -77.0227°W
Owner:	Smithsonian Institution

Seated Yucatán Woman is a bronze sculpture, by Francisco Zúñiga.^[1] It is an edition of four, one of which is located at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.^[2]

The artist depicts the grace and dignity of peasant women in Mexico.^[3]

According to Ariel Zuñiga, the correct title of the piece is Juchiteca sentada (Seated Juchiteca).^[4]

See also

• List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2

External links

• Waymarking

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seated Yucatan Woman, (sculpture) . Siris-artinventories.si.edu . 2015-03-11.
2. Web site: Collection Search - Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian . Hirshhorn.si.edu . 2010-12-07 . 2015-03-11 . dead . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090402065223/http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=14673 . 2009-04-02 .
3. A Garden for Art, Valerie J. Fletcher, OCLC 97-61991, p.59
4. Web site: Images of sculpture from The Hirshhorn Sculpture Gardens-page 7. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College . Bluffton.edu . 2015-03-11.