José Guadalupe Posada's print of La Catrina, a grinning skeleton woman wearing an enormous wide-brimmed hat crowned with flowers and two large feathers, with a bow at each side of her skull. Black ink on orange paper, with her bony shoulders at the bottom of the frame.

José Guadalupe Posada and the Story of La Catrina

Before she became the face of Día de los Muertos, La Catrina was a skeleton on a cheap street print. Here's how José Guadalupe Posada gave her the smile the world now knows.

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