Hector Duarte (American, born Mexico, 1952) “Como te ven te tratan” (“As they see you, they treat you”), 2007, linoleum cut, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Molly Day and John Himmelfarb, 2007.15.3
Curated by undergraduate students of Northwestern University Professor Christina Kiaer, this companion exhibition to The Left Front juxtaposes prints by Depression-era activist artists with works by more contemporary political artists.
The Block’s winter exhibitions and programs are supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, as well as the Terra Foundation on behalf of William Osborn and David Kabiller, the Myers Foundations and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Additional funding comes from the Carlyle Anderson Endowment, the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment, the Norton S. Walbridge Fund, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Louise E. Drangsholt Fund, the Kessel Fund at the Block Museum, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.