(b. Calgary, Canada, 1930; d. Mexico City, 1992)
Belkin was a Jewish Canadian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor active in Mexico. He studied in Canada at the Vancouver School of Art (1944-45) and Banff School of Fine Arts (1947-8). The Socialist tendencies of his Russian immigrant parents influenced his interest in the Muralist Movement, and he moved to Mexico City when he was 18 years old. He continued his training there at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda (1948-49) with Agustín Lazo and Carlos Orozco Romero, and from 1950 worked as one of a team of assistants to David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1952 he became a Mexican citizen, and soon after began to create murals, such as The People Don't Want War (Acrylic, 2 x 2.5 meters, 1952; Mexico City, Inst. Poli. N.) and Scenes from Don Quixote (Acrylic on concrete, 1957; Cuernavaca), following these with many others in Mexico, the USA, Canada, Cuba and Nicaragua. Belkin exhibited extensively in the United S
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