Circular City
Artist
Carlos Almaraz(Mexican-American, 1941–1989)Mexican-American, 1941–1989
CultureMexican-American
Titles
- Circular City
Date1989
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 48 1/8 × 72 1/16 in. (122.2 × 183 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Latino Art Fund
Object number2025.21
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Atrium Floor 3
On view
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Department
Latin American ArtObject Type
Exhibition HistoryJan Turner Gallery, 1989
Published References Holly Barnet Sanchez and Tim Drescher, Give me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals, (Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2016). John Beardsley, Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters & Sculptors (Houston, New York: Museum of Fine Arts, Abbeville Press, 1987). Richard Griswold del Castillo, Teresa McKenna, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Chicano Art : Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985, (Los Angeles : Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991). Karen Mary Davalos, Chicana/o Remix. Art and Errata since the Sixties (New York: New York University Press, 2017). Howard Fox, Playing with Fire: Paintings By Carlos Almaraz (Los Angeles: DelMonico Books, 2017). Shifra Goldman, Tradition and transformation: Chicana/o art from the 1970s through the 1990s (Los Angeles, California: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2015). Jennifer A. Gonzalez, C. Ondine Chavoya, Chon Noriega, and Terezita Romo, Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology, (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2019). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and dated in yellow paint, lower right corner: Almaraz [cursive] '89
Verso: Signed and dated in black paint, upper right, on canvas: © / ALMARAZ [all capitals print] / '89
Verso: Signed and dated in black paint, upper right, on canvas: © / ALMARAZ [all capitals print] / '89
Recto: Signed in yellow paint, lower right corner: Almaraz [cursive]
Verso: Signed in black paint, upper right, on canvas: © / ALMARAZ [all capitals, print]
Verso: Signed in black paint, upper right, on canvas: © / ALMARAZ [all capitals, print]
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