This mural was painted in Morelia, Mexico with Reuben Kadish. Jules Langser was their assistant. They received the commission with the help of David Alfaro Siquieros and Diego Rivera.
This is a drawing made in preparation for a larger painting, which is now lost. Guston was just 17 years old and had recently been expelled from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.
This scene fromLittle Black Sambo,which depicts the tigers fighting with each other over Sambo’s clothes,is closely related to a long history of the African depicted as a trickster or a humorous person.In this scene, Sambo has just…
Illustrated seventeen years apart from each other, the two images above represent a similar depiction of the character Black Mumbo inLittle Black Sambo.In these images, Black Mumbo is overweight and matronly; in one image she wears a stereotypical…