The Dog and the Crocodile

Born in Argentina to Italian parents, Frasconi was raised in Uruguay and later relocated to the United States, in 1945. He became known for his color woodcuts, such as The Storm is Coming, which were often produced in the form of books available in several languages. The Dog and the Crocodile, included in Frasconi’s 1950 woodcut portfolio, Some Well Known Fables, depicts a scene from an Aesop fable in which a hungry crocodile tempts a dog to approach and drink from the Nile River. In the 1980s, Frasconi produced a series of woodcuts about “The Disappeared,” who were victims of political violence during the Uruguayan dictatorship from 1973 to 1985.