In the mid-1940s Lewenthal began courting inter¬national artists. AAA had already commissioned Miguel Covarrubias, its first printmaker living in Mexico, and in 1946 it announced the formation of its Department of Latin American Art, headed by curator Mildred Constantine. AAA vice president Estelle Mandel traveled to recruit contemporary Latin American artists.

The following year the business published Mexican People, a portfolio of twelve lithographs executed by ten members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Peoples Graphics Workshop), a printmak¬ing collective founded in Mexico City in 1937 to promote social change. Prints by other Latin American artists, such as Luis Arenal, Francisco Dosamantes, and Eduardo Kingman, followed.