Raúl Anguiano

Raúl Anguiano (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1915 – Mexico City, Mexico, 2006) was a celebrated Mexican artist whose body of work includes lithographs, sculptures and ceramics along with paintings, drawings, and murals. He was particularly praised for his ability to depict Maya peoples and other Indigenous groups from Mesoamerica. Anguiano’s work was exhibited in more than 100 shows around the world, including a retrospective in Los Angeles for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival. His work is part of several permanent museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, and others around the world.