Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada, Leopoldo Méndez

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Leopoldo Méndez, Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada
Leopoldo Méndez, Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada
Leopoldo Méndez
Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada
1956
Leopoldo Méndez
1902–1968
Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada, 1956
Where object was made: Mexico
Material/technique: type-metal engraving
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 362 x 795 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 575 x 940 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 1/4 x 31 5/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 22 5/8 x 37 1/2 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 32 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 1 in
Weight (Weight): 14 lbs
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2001.0005
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Teaching Gallery Label: “Changing the World: Images of Revolution,” Feb-2009, Kate Meyer In this commanding linoleum cut, Méndez, a member of the Mexican Communist Party, pays tribute to José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), generally regarded as the founder of ideological printmaking in Mexico. Exhibition Label: “Selecciones: Mexican Art from the Collection,” Nov-2005, Kate Meyer In this commanding linoleum cut, Méndez, a member of the Mexican Communist Party, pays tribute to José Guadalupe Posada, generally regarded as the founder of ideological printmaking in Mexico. Another fellow member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), Jules Heller, wrote of this print, “The dignified and powerful figure of Posada dominates center stage; the three figures on the left, including Vanegas Arroyo, his publisher, are mere counterpoints to the scene on the right, showing several mounted police in an engagement with an unarmed group of workers and peasants.” Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard In 1947 Méndez was among the founding members of the radical Mexican printmaking workshop the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP). He remained a prominent member of the group until 1952. In this commanding linoleum cut, Méndez, a member of the Mexican Communist Party, pays tribute to José Guadalupe Posada, generally regarded as the founder of ideological printmaking in Mexico. Another member of the TGP, Jules Heller, wrote of this print, “The dignified and powerful figure of Posada dominates center stage; the three figures on the left, including Vanégas Arroyo, his publisher, are mere counterpoints to the scene on the right, showing several mounted police in an engagement with an unarmed group of workers and peasants.”