Leopoldo Méndez was a founding member, with Luis Arenal, Raúl Anguiano, and Pablo O'Higgins, of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Print Workshop), established in Mexico City in 1937. The TGP was a collective center for the creation of sociopolitical art. Sharing the postrevolutionary idealism of the Mexican muralists, the TGP aimed to reach a broad audience, primarily through the dissemination of inexpensive wood- and linoleum-block prints. There was a sense among TGP artists that they were part of a Mexican tradition going back to the prints of José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) in the nineteenth century. In this linoleum cut, Méndez pays homage to Posada. Ilona Katzew, 2008
