2010 Signature Edition Series
Enrique Chagoya
The Headache, A Print After George Cruikshank
Edition Size: 30 (offset companion print edition: 700)
Medium/description: etching with digital chin collé, companion print: black and white offset lithograph
Dimensions: 16.5” x 20.5"; Offset Dimensions: 15” x 21”
Both prints are housed together within a 19” x 23.25” museum board enclosure
Enrique Chagoya is a contemporary printmaker based in California. He studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. During his time at the University, he worked on rural development projects, an experience that strengthened his interest in political and social activism and later his work as a printmaker.
Enrique Chagoya’s The Headache is a limited edition print inspired by George 
Cruikshank’s 18th century print of the same name. Chagoya worked with the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection, updating the Cruikshank print to 21st century political times. In doing so, Chagoya replaced the original face with that of President Barack Obama to represent the current healthcare “headache”.
In George Cruikshank’s time there were attempts (by bribe) to censor his work and even the royal family approached him in hopes of avoiding any further embarrassment from his brutal characterizations. Cruikshank was a populist artist whose socially critical images of drunkards and medical maladies were readily accessible through newspapers, magazines, books and broadsides.
Chagoya’s print was produced in collaboration with two Philadelphia print shops, C.R. Ettinger Studio and Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints and includes both digital, chine collé and intaglio layers. The prepress digital work and plate production was done by the artist and Don Farnsworth at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, California.
Along with the intaglio print, the purchaser 
receives a black and white offset lithography print. Both
prints are packaged within an archival portfolio. This offset version was produced for the public program at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in an edition of 1,000 on Stonehenge paper by the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Enrique Chagoya lives and works in San Francisco.
Read more about Enrique Chagoya's project for Philagrafika 2010 here.
For purchase information please contact: Rebecca Mott at rmott@philagrafika.org or call 215-701-8057.