Francisco Dosamantes

Francisco Dosamantes was a Mexican artist and educator, born in Mexico City. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, afterwhich he found employment with cultural missions in poorer areas of Mexico, where he worked closely with indigenous groups and farmers. The experience had a fundamental effect on his life and art as a political and cultural activist.

Dosamantes was a member of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (LEAR), founder of Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura (1945), and a founding member of Taller de Grafica Popular and the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana.