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(b. Mexico City, 1902; d. Mexico City, 1969). Leopoldo is recognized as a painter, draftsman and print maker as well as for his political activism and contributions to teaching fine arts. Mendez was born in 1902 in Mexico City, where he attended San Carlos Academy from 1917-20. He lived in California where he co-founded the Chimalixtac a center for painting that employed experimental methods of teaching fine arts. He later returned to Mexico where he also founded Taller de Grafico Popular. From 1932 he was director of the Fine Arts Section of the Ministry of Education. He traveled throughout Europe on a Guggenheim fellowship he received in 1946. In Mexico he worked with Pablo O'Higgins, Fernando Gamboa and Alfredo Zalce on a fresco project for the Taller Grafica de la Nacion. He also created a mural for the Social Security Hospital No.1 in collaboration with O'Higgins. Mendez continued his organizational involvement through out his life until the time of his death in Mexico City in 196
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