1916, pastel on paper, Museo Nacional de Arte. Image: Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Landscape with a Girl and Hydrangeas, c. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Support for this exhibition comes from The Jorge Baldor Curatorial Fund for Latin American Art with media support provided by Univision. The adjacent gallery presents nearly 40 works that explore themes of gender, politics, and the role of the new modern woman in Mexico, featuring works by María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.įlores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, and inspired by Flores Mexicanas : A Lindbergh Love Story, organized by the Missouri History Museum.

This is a historic chance to see one of Ramos Martínez’s masterpieces for the first time. Recently conserved, the ornate 9-by-12-foot painting was a wedding gift to the famed aviators Anne and Charles Lindbergh, who met in Mexico City, from then-Mexican president Emilio Portes Gil.

Flores Mexicanas was the last work Martínez completed before his move from Mexico City to Los Angeles in 1929. The exhibition is inspired by the loan of the monumental painting Flores Mexicanas by Alfredo Ramos Martínez to the DMA from the Missouri History Museum the painting is on view for only the second time in nearly a century.Ī portion of the show traces the career of Alfredo Ramos Martínez, one of the founders of Mexican modernism. Flores Mexicanas : Women in Modern Mexican Art surveys changing representations of women in paintings, works on paper, and textiles early in 20th-century Mexican art through works by some of Mexico’s most renowned artists.

Mexican pinta flowers