Grinding Maize, Cuautla, 1947

Not on View

Mexican People

lithograph in black on wove paper

image: 35.08 × 28.58 cm (13 13/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

sheet: 44.61 × 38.42 cm (17 9/16 × 15 1/8 in.)

2015.19.1313

Leopoldo Méndez (artist) Mexican, 1902 - 1969

lower right in graphite: Méndez; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: grinding maize, cuautla

stamped upper right verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

2016: Windisch, Gail, and Sylvan Cole, Jr. Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs. Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2016, p. 104, no. 922.