Kayon
1951 · Lithograph
composition: 20 7/16 x 16 13/16" (51.9 x 42.7cm); sheet: 26 1/8 x 19 7/8" (66.4 x 50.5cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Raúl Anguiano
Artist
PrintmakingStreet ArtRealismSocial Realism
Representation
None documented
10
Institutional Exhibitions
34
Works in Collection
54
Assets Indexed
1
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Street Art
- • Realism
- • Social Realism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Mexican Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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The Artist as Adversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
No image
American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
About
Why this artist matters now
Raúl Anguiano was a Mexican painter and muralist who developed a gestural style grounded in social realism and indigenous cultural forms. From the 1940s onward, he created large-scale public commissions, prints, and figurative paintings that addressed labor, community, and national identity. His bold brushwork and richly modulated color palette synthesized European modernism with Mexican artistic tradition, positioning him as a significant voice in postwar Mexican art.
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Street Art
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Printmaking
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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