Ex libris Ronald Campbell

Date: 1944

Medium: Wood engraving

Dimensions (cm.): Information to be added

Published edition: Unknown. Méndez [1949?] gives number of impressions of an unspecified ex libris from 1944 as 150 approx.

Contemporary publication: Unknown

References: Possibly Exposición de Homenaje 384; Méndez INBA 109 (unspecified ex libris)

Commentary: Ronald L. Campbell (1906-1999) was a city planner in San Mateo, California who met Méndez on a visit to Mexico in 1944. An allegory of the benefits of good planning, Méndez’s image shows health, sanitation, and sunlight overcoming blight and disease. (Peter Schneider)

Catalogue record number: 397