Retrato de Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1966

Original medium: Unknown

Alternate titles: El Lincoln perdurable

Published in: El Día, año 4, num. 1370, 4 abril, 1966, p. 1 

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Commentary:  This illustration was commissioned by the newspaper El Día in 1966 on the occasion of the visit of U.S. president Lyndon Johnson to Mexico. The editor of the newspaper, Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez offered the original illustration to Mexican president Gustavo Díaz Ordaz by letter dated May 10, 1966, and Díaz wrote back on June 1, 1966 acknowledging its receipt: "Recibí el original del magnífico grabado realizado por Leopoldo Méndez, publicado en ese diario que usted dirige, con la efigíe del procer Abraham Lincoln." Cenidiap CNAP-FR-LM-01180-F1 and -01181-F1. (Peter Schneider)

Catalogue record number: 775