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  • Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Frank Romero, Por El Pueblo, 1981

    Frank Romero USA, b. 1941

    Por El Pueblo, 1981
    Acrylic on canvas
    143 x 250 in
    363.2 x 635 cm
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    Barrientos Martínez shares, “Created in 1981 in conjunction with the exhibition Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los...
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    Barrientos Martínez shares, “Created in 1981 in conjunction with the exhibition Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, California, Por El Pueblo reflects a diverse cast of signs and symbols that belong to a coded pictographic language first developed by the artist in the early 1970s. From a family pet to an unbridled horse, a military warplane to a 1920s Chevy, an oversized corazón to a nopal cactus, these icons are painted atop a large spread of cool hues with inclusions of deep red shades. Romero’s motifs represent familiar surroundings within the range of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles to Arroyo Seco in Taos, New Mexico, pulling from his communal and personal record as a love letter to his culture and region composed in the tongue of his visual vocabulary. Por El Pueblo communicates to viewers using coded language that is both deeply personal for Romero and universal in its relationship to the everyday.”
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    Exhibitions

    De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX; curator: Rafael Barrientos Martínez, 2024
    Long term loan, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA, 1990 - 2024
    Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981

    Literature

    Exhibition catalogue, De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art: New York / San Antonio, 2024 (illustrated)
    Frank, Nicholas, “Ruiz-Healy’s 40-year Frank Romero Survey Traces Early & Ancient Roots of Chicano Art,” Glasstire, March 5, 2025 (illustrated)

    Publications

    Ela H. Patrick and Edward Hayes. Dreamland: A Frank Romero Retrospective. Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, 2017, p. 19 (illustrated)
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