In the prologue to the catalogue of the 1935 exhibition of contemporary Mexican art, Mexican artist Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna provides a brief overview of Mexican art from the time of the Mayans until the present. He asserts that Mexican art, like the rest of the art from the continent, partakes of a “restless, incorruptible and aggressive spirit that encompasses a wide range of visions and constitutes authentic Americanism.” In his view, Mexicans have developed a serious artistic movement aimed at the creation of an original and independent school. The essay includes a list of the works exhibited and the artists who made them, along with a brief commentary on each one’s artistic development. The show included sixty-seven works by the following artists: Julio Castellanos, Jean Charlot, Agustín Velásquez Chánez, Miguel Covarrubias, María Izquierdo, Timiji Kitagawa, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Leopoldo Méndez, Carlos Mérida, Paul O’Higgins, Jorge Olvera, José Clemente Orozco, Máximo Pacheco, Feliciano Peña, Fermín Revueltas, Diego Rivera, Carlos Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo. It also included thirteen sculptures by Germán Cueto, Mardoneo Magana, Guillermo Ruiz, R. Archundía, Fernando Flores, and Jorge Martínez.