1946. Folio of 12 lithographs, two in colour. Accompanied by a contents sheet and a map indicating the industries each of the 10 artists visited and studied, each signed in pencil below image, 28.5 x 35cm (approx. each image); 40.7 x 46.7cm (folio). Minor stains or creases to margins, colour images have slight discolouration to margins and one has old tape to upper edge not affecting image. Slight scuffing to folio.

Folio cover text includes “By artists of the Taller De Grafica Popular, Mexico City. Presented by American Associated Artists, New York.”

The Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Graphic Workshop) was an artists’ print collective founded in Mexico in 1937 by artists Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O’Higgins, and Luis Arenal. The collective was primarily concerned with using art to advance revolutionary social causes. The folio Mexican People was intended to promote Mexican products for export to the United States. Artists included are Angel Bracho, Francisco Mora, Fernando Castro Pacheco, Raul Anguiano, Alberto Beltran, Pablo O’Higgins, Arturo Garcia Bustos, Leopold Mendez, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce. Held in Art Institute, Chicago.