Artworks · Leopoldo Méndez

Campesino de Morelos... (Farmer from Morelos....) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1942 · Lithograph from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 4 11/16 x 3 9/16" (11.9 x 9.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Clinic (Clinica)

1941 · Wood engraving

composition: 3 3/8 × 5 5/8" (8.5 × 14.3 cm); sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 7/8" (17.5 × 22.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Luchamos en el mismo frente (We Fight on the Same Front)

1941 · Lithograph on two sheets

overall: 37 × 26 3/8" (94 × 67 cm); sheet (each): 18 1/2 × 27 3/16" (47 × 69 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Building in New York

1940 · Zinc etching relief on cream China paper

Image/plate: 22.3 × 15.1 cm (8 13/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

New York

1940 · Etching on zinc on paper

20.3 × 11 cm (8 × 4 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ballad of Don Chapulín [2] (Corrido de Don Chapulín [2])

1940 · One from a series of four broadsides with relief etching on colored paper

sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 5/16" (34 × 23.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ballad of Don Chapulín [3] (Corrido de Don Chapulín [3])

1940 · One from a series of four broadsides with relief etching on colored paper

sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 5/16" (34 × 23.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ballad of Don Chapulín [1] (Corrido de Don Chapulín [1])

1940 · One from a series of four broadsides with relief etching on colored paper

sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 5/16" (34 × 23.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ballad of Don Chapulín [4] (Corrido de Don Chapulín [4])

1940 · One from a series of four broadsides with relief etching on colored paper

sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 5/16" (34 × 23.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Vulture's Nest (El nido del Buitre) from the portfolio 25 Prints of Leopoldo Méndez

1940 · One from a portfolio of twenty-five woodcuts

sheet: 7 7/8 × 9 13/16" (20 × 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ballad of Don Chapulín (Corrido de Don Chapulín)

1940 · Series of four broadsides with relief etching on colored paper

sheet (each): 13 3/8 × 9 5/16" (34 × 23.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Killing Many Birds with One Stone (Con una piedra se matan muchos pájaros... Nalgones)

1940 · Linoleum cut with typeset text

composition: 5 1/16 × 7 3/8" (12.8 × 18.7 cm); sheet: 13 5/16 × 9 1/8" (33.8 × 23.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Corrido de Don Chapulín (Ballad of Don Chapulín) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1940 · Photolithographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing, printed in black

irreg. composition 4 5/16 x 7 3/8" (10.9 x 18.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Corrido de Don Chapulín (Ballad of Don Chapulín) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1940 · Photolithographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 5 1/4 x 4 3/4" (13.4 x 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Corrido de Don Chapulín (Ballad of Don Chapulín) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1940 · Photolithographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 5 3/8 x 4 13/16" (13.6 x 12.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Corrido de Don Chapulín (Ballad of Don Chapulín) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1940 · Photolithographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 4 5/16 x 7 1/2" (11 x 19 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Killing Many Birds with One Stone (Con una piedra se matan muchos pájaros) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1940 · Photolithographic reproduction of linoleum cut from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 5 x 7 3/8" (12.8 x 18.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Professor Arnulfo Sosa Portillo, from In the Name of Christ

1939 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 28 × 20.5 cm (11 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35.2 × 43.3 cm (13 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Professor José Martínez Ramírez, from In the Name of Christ

1939 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.3 × 21 cm (11 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 49.9 × 40.4 cm (19 11/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for the cover of Melodic Incidents of the Irrational World (recto); Melodic Incidents of the Irrational World (verso)

1939 · Graphite, with black conté crayon, with erasing (recto) and red conté crayon (verso) on off-white wove paper

29 × 44.8 cm (11 7/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woodcutters

1939 · Lithograph

composition: 11 11/16 × 15 11/16" (29.7 × 39.8 cm); sheet: 12 3/4 × 19 3/4" (32.4 × 50.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Profesor Ildefonso Vargas from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 11 3/4 × 8 1/8" (29.8 × 20.6 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Matanza de Campesinos y Maestros en San Felipe Torres Mochas, Gto" from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 10 5/16 × 8 1/16" (26.2 × 20.5 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Profesor Jose Martinez Ramirez from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 11 15/16 × 8 1/8" (30.3 × 20.7 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Profesor Maria Salud Morales from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 11 3/4 × 8 3/16" (29.8 × 20.8 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Profesor Arnulfo Sosa Portillo from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 10 15/16 × 8" (27.8 × 20.3 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Profesor Ramon Orta Del Rio from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 11 11/16 × 8 1/16" (29.7 × 20.4 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Profesor Juan Martinez Escobar from the illustrated book En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Lithograph from an illustrated book

composition (irreg.): 11 3/8 × 8 1/16" (28.9 × 20.5 cm); page: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8" (35 × 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

En Nombre De Cristo... Han Asesinado más de 200 Maestros: 7 Litografias de Leopoldo Méndez (In the Name of Christ...More than 200 Teachers Have Been Murdered: 7 Lithographs by Leopoldo Méndez)

1939 · Illustrated book of seven lithographs

page 13 15/16 x 9 3/8" (35 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Teacher You Are Alone Against Your Enemies

1938 · Linocut on paper

13.2 × 17.7 cm (5 1/4 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Professor Ramón Orta del Río, From In the Name of Christ

1938 · Lithograph on paper

Image/plate: 29.4 × 20.5 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 38.4 × 29 cm (15 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Album of 25 Illustrated Educational Handbills

1938

43.3 × 33.7 × 1 cm (17 1/16 × 13 5/16 × 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Imperialism and War (El Imperialsimo y la guerra)

1938 · Lithograph on colored paper

composition (without text): 7 1/4 × 5 13/16" (18.4 × 14.8 cm); sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 9/16" (24.2 × 16.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

All the Land for the Peasants. Zapata. (Toda la Tierra para los Campesinos. Zapata.)

1938 · Linoleum cut

composition: 5 7/8 × 7 5/8" (15 × 19.3 cm); sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 3/16" (32.6 × 23.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The “Taking” of Madrid in November 1936 (La "toma" de Madrid en noviembre de 1936), plate 8, from Franco's Spain (La España de Franco)

1938 · One from a portfolio of fifteen lithographs

Museum of Modern Art

Franco, Man of Honor, Swearing to Defend the Republic (Franco, hombre de honor, jura defender la república), plate 1, from Franco's Spain (La España de Franco)

1938 · One from a portfolio of fifteen lithographs

Museum of Modern Art

America Beware, Fascism Threatens the American Countries! (Aprende, América ¡El fascismo amenaza a los paises americanos!), plate 15, from Franco's Spain (La España de Franco)

1938 · One from a portfolio of fifteen lithographs

Museum of Modern Art

Zapata. Toda la tierra para los campesinos (Zapata. All the Land for the Farmers) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1938 · Photolithographic reproduction of linoleum cut from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 5 7/8 x 7 1/2" (15 x 19 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Maestro tú estás solo contra . . . (Teacher, You Are Alone Against . . . ) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1938 · Photolithographic reproduction of linoleum cut from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 5 1/4 x 7 1/16" (13.3 x 18 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Imperialism and War (El Imperialsimo y la guerra) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

1938 · Lithograph from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides

irreg. composition 7 1/4 x 5 13/16" (18.4 x 14.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Land of Gum

1937 · Woodcut on paper

Image/plate: 17.4 × 12.7 cm (6 7/8 × 5 in.); Sheet: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mexican Weavers

1937 · Linocut on paper

23.3 × 17.7 cm (9 3/16 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

White River (January 7, 1907)

1937 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 39.3 × 33 cm (15 1/2 × 13 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.1 cm (25 3/4 × 19 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Workers' School

1937 · Lithograph in black and red on paper

21.5 × 31.2 cm (8 1/2 × 12 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Imperialism and War

1937 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 18.5 × 15.1 cm (7 5/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 32.6 × 25.7 cm (12 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Rebellion

1937 · Linocut on paper

Image/plate: 19.7 × 11.9 cm (7 13/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 20.4 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicle Gatherer (Chiclero) from the portfolio 25 Prints of Leopoldo Méndez

1937 · One from a portfolio of twenty-five woodcuts

sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 7/8" (25 × 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Chiclero

1937 · Woodcut

composition: 6 7/8 × 5" (17.5 × 12.7 cm); sheet: 10 1/2 × 6" (26.7 × 15.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art