Artist Monograph

Enrique Chagoya, Mexican

American, born Mexico 1953

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	21	84%
Watercolor	1	4%
Acrylic Painting	1	4%
Drawing	1	4%
Lithography	1	4%

Production by Decade

1990s

2000s

2010s

Classification Types

Print — 22
Illustrated Book — 2
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	16	66.7%
Medium (30–100 cm)	6	25%
Large (1–3 m)	1	4.2%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	4.2%

Range: 21.3 cm → 304.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1995	1
1999	1
2002	1
2009	4
2011	3
2013	9
2015	6

Mexican Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 25 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
The Bread of Days Illustrated Book Acc. 751.1995.1-12	1994	Illustrated book with 12 etchings	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mary Ellen Meehan Fund
The Return of the Macrobiotic Cannibal (El regreso del canibal macrobiotico) Illustrated Book Acc. 43.1999	1998	Lithograph, woodcut, and chine collé	composition 7 1/2 x 92" (19.2 x 232.8 cm) each sheet 7 1/2 x 11 1/2" (19.2 x 27.9 cm) sheet 7 1/2 x 92" (19 x 232.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Ralph E. Shikes Fund
The Illuminated Cannibal / El Cannibal Illuminado Drawing Acc. 299.2002	2002	Transfer drawing, cut-and-pasted painted paper, ink, and synthetic polymer paint on pieced amate paper	8" x 120" (20.3 x 304.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Border Patrol on Acid Print Acc. 9.2009	2007	Etching and aquatint with hand additions	plate: 10 3/4 x 13 7/8" (27.3 x 35.2 cm); sheet: 17 11/16 x 19 7/8" (45 x 50.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Thinking of Ensor and My Cat Diego Print Acc. 10.2009	2007	Etching and aquatint with hand additions	plate: 10 13/16 x 13 3/4" (27.5 x 35 cm); sheet: 17 13/16 x 19 7/8" (45.2 x 50.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Homage to the Un-Square and My Cat Frida Print Acc. 1363.2009	2009	Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with hand additions	plate: 12 7/8 x 15 15/16" (32.7 x 40.5 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 22 1/16" (50.9 x 56 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Orozco Meets Victor Hugo at the Auction House Print Acc. 1364.2009	2009	Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with hand additions	plate: 12 15/16 x 17 1/2" (32.8 x 44.5 cm); sheet: 20 x 22 1/16" (50.8 x 56 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
My Cat Lulu's Utopia (After J.C. Orozco) Print Acc. 271.2011	2010	Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with watercolor and acrylic additions	plate: 13 13/16 x 16 15/16" (35.1 x 43 cm); sheet: 20 x 21 7/8" (50.8 x 55.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
My Cat Santos had a Nightmare Print Acc. 272.2011	2010	Etching, aquatint and drypoint with watercolor additions	plate: 13 7/8 x 16 7/8" (35.2 x 42.9 cm); sheet: 20 x 21 5/8" (50.8 x 55 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Return to Goya No. 9 Print Acc. 273.2011	2010	Etching with letterpress additions	plate: 8 1/2 x 6" (21.6 x 15.2 cm); sheet: 14 5/8 x 11" (37.1 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Aquellos polvos/Those specks of dust from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.3	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 7/16 x 5 7/8" (21.4 x 14.9 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
El sueño de la razón produce monstrous/The sleep of reason produces monsters from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.6	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 3/8 x 5 13/16" (21.3 x 14.7 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Grande el Sombrero/Hat's too Big from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.1	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 7/16 x 5 13/16" (21.4 x 14.8 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Mucho hay que chupar/There is plenty to suck from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.7	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 3/8 x 5 7/8" (21.3 x 14.9 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Porque esconderlos?/Why hide them? from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.4	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 3/8 x 5 13/16" (21.3 x 14.8 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Que sacrificio!/What a sacrifice! from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.2	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 7/16 x 5 7/8" (21.4 x 14.9 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.1-8	2012	Portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate (each, approx.): 8 3/8 x 5 13/16" (21.3 x 14.8 cm); sheet (each, approx.): 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Subir y bajar/To rise and to fall from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.8	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 3/8 x 5 13/16" (21.3 x 14.8 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Tu que no puedes/Thou who canst not from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 580.2013.5	2012	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 3/8 x 5 13/16" (21.3 x 14.8 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Bravisimo! / Bravissimo! from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 1624.2015.1	2015	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8" (21.6 × 15 cm; sheet: 14 1/2 × 11" (36.9 × 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Lo que puede un sastre! / What a tailor can do! from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 1624.2015.2	2015	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8" (21.6 × 15 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 11" (36.9 × 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Sopla / Gust the wind from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 1624.2015.3	2015	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 7/16 × 5 7/8" (21.4 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 11" (36.9 × 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Y se le quema la casa / And the house is on fire from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 1624.2015.6	2015	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 7/16 × 5 7/8" (21.4 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 11" (36.9 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Ya tienen asiento / Now they are sitting well fromRecurrent Goya Print Acc. 1624.2015.4	2015	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 9/16 × 5 7/8" (21.7 × 15 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 11" (36.9 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Ya van desplumados / There they go plucked from Recurrent Goya Print Acc. 1624.2015.5	2015	One from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints with letterpress	plate: 8 7/16 × 5 13/16" (21.5 × 14.8 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 11" (36.9 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer