Viet Nam (Vietnam Shall Win)
Artist
René Mederos
(1933 Sagua La Grande, Cuba - 1996 Havana, Cuba)
Publisher
The Glad Day Press
Date1971, published 1972
Mediumlithograph on paper
Dimensions21 1/4 × 14 3/8 in. (54 × 36.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Diane Palley
Object numberPC2020.34.67
DescriptionPoster reading "VIET NAM (Vietnam) Shall Win," translated into several languages, with image of an elderly man dressed in white, reading a book at the edge of a mangrove riverbank. The figure is identifiable as Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh, with his iconic sandals and long, white beard. Multicolored flora surround the subject, who sits beneath a red sky, and the blue water is tinged with shades of orange, green and purple.On View
Not on view
October 4, 1932
April 1982
