David Alfaro Siqueiros

There they were, the great masters: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, famous for their politically charged, monumental murals.

Edward Goldman: Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon Edward Goldman 2012

There they were, the great masters: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, famous for their politically charged, monumental murals.

Edward Goldman: Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon Edward Goldman 2012

There they were, the great masters: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, famous for their politically charged, monumental murals.

Edward Goldman: Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon Edward Goldman 2012

There they were, the great masters: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, famous for their politically charged, monumental murals.

Edward Goldman: Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon Edward Goldman 2012

The MACG is known as a repository of one of the most emblematic private collections in Mexico, which was donated to the State by Alvar and Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil and opened to the public 1974 with an important nucleus of paintings by the three great muralist figures: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as works by modern European artists such as Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Susan Segal: Shattered Glass, Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection Susan Segal 2010

The MACG is known as a repository of one of the most emblematic private collections in Mexico, which was donated to the State by Alvar and Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil and opened to the public 1974 with an important nucleus of paintings by the three great muralist figures: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as works by modern European artists such as Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Susan Segal: Shattered Glass, Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection Susan Segal 2010

The MACG is known as a repository of one of the most emblematic private collections in Mexico, which was donated to the State by Alvar and Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil and opened to the public 1974 with an important nucleus of paintings by the three great muralist figures: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as works by modern European artists such as Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Susan Segal: Shattered Glass, Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection Susan Segal 2010

David Alfaro Siqueiros' mural in downtown L.A. was whitewashed soon after it was finished in 1932 because it offended authorities with its depiction of a crucified Indian peasant with an image of an eagle above his head as a symbol of American imperialism.

Edward Goldman: American Museums: All Talk, No Walk Edward Goldman 2010

The MACG is known as a repository of one of the most emblematic private collections in Mexico, which was donated to the State by Alvar and Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil and opened to the public 1974 with an important nucleus of paintings by the three great muralist figures: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as works by modern European artists such as Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Susan Segal: Shattered Glass, Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection Susan Segal 2010

The MACG is known as a repository of one of the most emblematic private collections in Mexico, which was donated to the State by Alvar and Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil and opened to the public 1974 with an important nucleus of paintings by the three great muralist figures: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as works by modern European artists such as Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Susan Segal: Shattered Glass, Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection Susan Segal 2010