Antonio Frasconi (b. 1919, d. 2013) was a graphic artist known for his use of woodblock printing to depict political protest, urban scenes, literature, and landscape. Frasconi began his career when he apprenticed at a local printmaker’s shop. It was here when he published his cartoons in satirical newspapers and experimented with woodcuts, a feat that would get him a scholarship to the Art Students League. In 1955, he published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages for their son. His magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared intended to preserve the memory of those who suffered under the dictatorship in Uruguay. Using woodcuts and monotypes, he conveyed graphically strong portrayals of the tortures, incarceration, and killings of many people during the dictatorship.

Throughout his life, he conducted classes at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Museum School, Atlanta Art Institute, and State University of New York at Purchase. His works continue to be viewed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art. He had illustrated and designed over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda’s Bestiary/Bestiario, the images of America’s Vietnam, and A Whiteman Portrait.

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