[Mural concerning history of Mexico in Escuela Mexico, Chillan, Chile] – Vintage Print
![[Mural concerning history of Mexico in Escuela Mexico, Chillan, Chile], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/39/395d5ed6ff28-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Mural concerning history of Mexico in Escuela Mexico, Chillan, Chile], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Mural concerning history of Mexico in Escuela Mexico, Chillan, Chile]
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This picture shows a mural by Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, but the wall is in Chillán, Chile, at the Escuela México, a school built with Mexican support after the 1939 earthquake devastated the region. The painting takes the history of Mexico as its theme and uses allegorical figures to tell it, a common approach for Siqueiros, who believed public murals should address working people and national memory. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year of the work is unconfirmed. Its placement far from Mexico makes it a notable example of Mexican muralism reaching across Latin America.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Mural painting by David Alfaro Siqueiros. No. 2022. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mexico--History; Murals; Publ. Ind.; Allegory. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,196 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149149 |
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