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LEOPOLDO MÉNDEZ Ciencia para la Guerra.
Linoleum cut, 1947. 457x486 mm; 17 7/8x19 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dedicated and inscribed "que trabaja por un cielo sin fronteras" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City with the black ink stamp verso. A very good impression of this large scarce print.
Mendez (1902-1969), a Mexican muralist and activist founded the workshop Taller de Gráfica Popular in 1937. The TGP championed anti-fascist ideology and social progress and worked to spread these ideals to the Mexican public.
The dedicatee, Jule G. Charney (1917-1981) was an American meteorologist and is considered the father of modern dynamical meteorology.
