A black and white photograph of two men in a field of sugar cane.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows a man with a beard in dark clothing wearing a straw hat with an upturned brim facing right. He is holding a machete in his right hand and sugar cane in his upraised left hand. There is man in a light colored shirt and dark trousers wearing a broad brimmed light colored hat in the background to the left. He is bent slightly at the waist. The two men are standing in front of a stand of tall sugar cane. There are stalks of cane covering the ground in the left foreground.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.152
People
Ernesto Fernández, Cuban (Havana, Cuba b. 1939?)
Title
Che during the sugar harvest
Other Titles
Original Language Title: El Che en la zafra
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1962, printed 2001
Culture
Cuban
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340159

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
36.7 × 55.7 cm (14 7/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
sheet: 50.6 × 60.8 cm (19 15/16 × 23 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ernesto Fernández (2001-2006) gift to; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (2006-2012) transferred to; Harvard Art Museums, 2012
NOTE: Information about acquisition provided by Jose Falconi, Curator for David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Gift of the artist
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.152
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Framing Cuba, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 09/26/2002 - 01/15/2003
  • Social Affects: Art as a Social Resource in Latin America, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 09/10/2009 - 02/10/2010; Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, 05/14/2010 - 06/12/2010
  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2018 - 08/08/2018; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2018 - 08/10/2018

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