When Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson declared January 26, 2022, Octavio Medellín Day, he honored the artist whose fingerprints are all over North Texas.
“He learned to carve on his own. I think he had probably a lot of lessons at home,” Castro said. “He famously said he just experimented. He found his voice on his own.”
“What I love about this work is it is a veritable tangle of relationships,” Castro said. “He understood how messy history is.”Octavio Medellín, The Hanged, 1939, direct carving in black walnut, Dallas Museum of Art, Kiest Memorial Purchase Prize, Fourteenth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, 1943, 1943.9is one of Medellín’s striking works. The figure with a noose around his neck was a common sight during his childhood in Mexico.
Medellín’s work caught the attention of art patron Lucy Maverick. She paid his salary so he could focus solely on art, and she support his 1938 trip to Yucatán to study the Maya ruins at Chichén Itzá. The trip inspired drawings, prints and decorative objects.
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