Frank Romero USA, b. 1941
Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Lujan / Romero, 1974
Offset lithograph
Produced at the School of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine
Artist's book designed by Frank Romero
1500 copies printed by Toyo Printing Los Angeles
Photographs are by Frank Romero and Hal Glicksman
Produced at the School of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine
Artist's book designed by Frank Romero
1500 copies printed by Toyo Printing Los Angeles
Photographs are by Frank Romero and Hal Glicksman
25 x 35 in
63.5 x 88.9 cm
63.5 x 88.9 cm
total edition of 1500. Printer's proof
'Accompanying the groundbreaking exhibition Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Lujan / Romero at the University of California, Irvine in 1973 and at the Los Angeles County Museum...
"Accompanying the groundbreaking exhibition Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Lujan / Romero at the University of California, Irvine in 1973 and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1974, Frank Romero designed and printed, in an unnumbered edition of one thousand five hundred, a condensation of the exhibition catalogue in a 25 x 35 inches size.
The work presents a compilation of both his own and his fellow Los Four members Carlos Almaraz, Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha, and Gilbert "Magu" Luján's photographs of friends and family, artworks and ephemera that challenged considerations of how we define both Chicano art as well as fine art overall, then and now. Printed with rainbow colors, the work reads as a serape blanket embedded with images of Chicanidad that, when displayed fifty years ago at LACMA, declared ownership of the institutional space for Chicanas and Chicanos everywhere for the first time. On its cover is emblazoned the now iconic bilingual "Los Four" logo created by Magu and Romero." - Rafael Barrientos Martínez
The work presents a compilation of both his own and his fellow Los Four members Carlos Almaraz, Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha, and Gilbert "Magu" Luján's photographs of friends and family, artworks and ephemera that challenged considerations of how we define both Chicano art as well as fine art overall, then and now. Printed with rainbow colors, the work reads as a serape blanket embedded with images of Chicanidad that, when displayed fifty years ago at LACMA, declared ownership of the institutional space for Chicanas and Chicanos everywhere for the first time. On its cover is emblazoned the now iconic bilingual "Los Four" logo created by Magu and Romero." - Rafael Barrientos Martínez
Provenance
Frank Romero StudioExhibitions
Los Four, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1974Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985, organized by the Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and CARA National Advisory Committee; traveling show to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, 1990-93
Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Luján / Romero, Eastern Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2024De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York; curator: Rafael Barrientos Martínez, 2024
Literature
“De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey,” Meer, December 11, 2024. (illustrated)Exhibition catalogue, De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art: New York / San Antonio, 2024 (illustrated)
“De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, a survey,” Meer, 2024 (illustrated)
