Leopoldo Méndez
The Merry-Go-Round (El carrusel)1948

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Leopoldo Méndez
Mexico, Mexico City, 1902-1969
Title: The Merry-Go-Round (El carrusel)
Date Made: 1948
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 in. (30.16 × 40.01 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Shirley Berman
Accession Number: M.2001.15.1
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Leopoldo Méndez created this linocut for the opening credits of the film Pueblerina, directed by Emilio Fernández (1904–1986) and shot by Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997)—two greats of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Film collaborations offered a new creative avenue to Méndez, who had long aspired to make graphic murals and to create prints on a monumental scale. While other images from the film depict scenes of labor or hardship, here Méndez illustrates a melancholic moment of leisure.

Rachel Kaplan, 2023
Selected Exhibition History: Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film. September 22, 2013 - February 2, 2014
Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film. September 22, 2013 - February 2, 2014