La Revolucion que hace Arte, 1929 by Leopoldo Mendez, Mexico

La Revolucion que hace Arte (The Revolution that Makes Art), 1929by Leopoldo Mendez (1902-1969), MexicoLinoleum Cut11 5/8” x 8 1/8” paper sizeProvenance: Estate of Jaled Muyaes (1921-2007, Mexico City. Signed in the matrix with L (lower left) and M (lower right). Image copyright 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico CityImage depicts a Mexican revolutionary sitting on a train track, playing the harmonica.  Leopoldo Mendez, muralist, printmaker, painter, political activist, teacher, administrator, father and husband, was born in Mexico City on June 30, 1902, the youngest of eight children. At age fifteen, Mendez became the youngest student to have enrolled in the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Saturnine Herran, Leandro Izaguirre, Ignacio Rosas, German Gedovius, and Francisco de la Torre. Following his graduation, he continued his studies at Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre (the plein-air Impressionist school founded by Alfredo Ramos Martine