LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections from the Cheech Marin Collection

15 Jun - 02 Nov 2008

© Chaz Bojórquez
Chino Latino, 2000
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 in.
collection of Cheech Marin
LOS ANGELENOS/CHICANO PAINTERS OF L.A.: SELECTIONS FROM THE CHEECH MARIN COLLECTION

June 15, 2008–November 2, 2008
LACMA West

The Cheech Marin collection is notable for classic examples of Chicano art produced from the inception of the Chicano movement to the present, with a concentration in painting from the 1980s and 90s. This exhibition includes a number of widely exhibited works by such first-generation Chicano artists as Carlos Almaraz, Margaret Garcia, Gilbert “Magu” Luján, Frank Romero, John Valadez, and Patssi Valdez, whose artistic careers began during the Chicano civil rights movement in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, as well as works by such younger artists as Vincent Valdez and David Flury. Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A. is a Los Angeles-focused selection of Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, an exhibition of the Marin collection that toured nationally between 2001 and 2007.