Author: Valerie Greathouse

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Published: 2016-08-01

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ISBN-13: 9781937433338

During the period in 1932 when David Alfaro Siqueiros was in Los Angeles, he painted three, possibly four murals: Street Meeting at the Chouinard Art Institute; América Tropical at El Pueblo de Los Angeles; and Portrait of Mexico Today at a private residence in Pacific Palisades. A possible fourth mural was painted at the John Reed Club in Hollywood, but was largely undocumented and likely uncompleted at the time of his departure. While in Los Angeles, Siqueiros discovered a number of new materials and technologies for painting large-scale murals. Always an innovator, this period of time was particularly rich in his career, and the work he did in Los Angeles laid the groundwork for his later murals in Mexico and South America.As an integral component of the GCI's project to conserve, América Tropical, a bibliography was compiled over the course of the project. This selected bibliography focuses on the murals painted by Siqueiros in Los Angeles in 1932 with additional references on materials and techniques used by Siqueiros, as relevant for context. It spans the time period from 1932, when Siqueiros came to Los Angeles, to 2012, when the conservation, protection and interpretation of the mural, América Tropical, was completed by the GCI and the City of Los Angeles.