One of Orozco’s motives for creating prints during his stay in the United States between 1927 and 1934 was to generate extra income. However, he strongly resisted making sentimental or picturesque images of Mexico that would be easy to sell. The lithograph "Mexican Pueblo" is a case in point. The angular and abstract forms of the buildings rendered from different perspectives through stark contrasts of light and dark not only evoke an arid Mexican town awash in bright sunlight but also nod to the cubist style. Unlike Rivera and Siqueiros, Orozco did not have the opportunity to study in Europe. Nonetheless, he was able to familiarize himself with various modernist art movements and incorporated their formal elements into his work.