
Leopoldo Méndez
Lucha por el carbón (Fighting for Coal)
1944

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Artist
Leopoldo Méndez
(Mexican, 1902–1968)
- Title Lucha por el carbón (Fighting for Coal)
- Date 1944
- Medium Woodcut
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Dimensions
sheet | 6 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.
- Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Dagen, 1983
- Object number WU 1983.5.5
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Technique
woodcut
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Work type
print
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Theme
Activism and Protest
Humor, Irony, and Satire: Strategies of Critique in Modern Art and Culture
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/21/2010 - 07/18/2010
1983
Irvin and Margaret Dagen
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