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Virtually Tour the Stunning Installation of 'Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art' at Dallas Museum of Art

March 30, 2020 14:21

Installation view, "Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art"

Alfredo Ramos Mart í nez, Flores Mexicanas , 1914 - 29, oil on canvas, Missouri Historical Society Collections. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project, reproduced by permission . Image courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art

Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Landscape with a Girl and Hydrangeas , c. 1916, pastel on paper, Museo Nacional de Arte . ©D.R. Museo Nacional de Arte/ Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura 2020 and The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project, reproduced b y permission

Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Mancacoyota , 1930, oil on cardboard, Colección Andrés Blaisten, México . © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project, reproduced by permission

The Dallas Museum of Art has a virtual tour of its spring exhibition surveying representations of women in Mexican Modernism. Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art was inspired by the loan of the monumental painting Flores Mexicanas by Alfredo Ramos Martínez to the DMA from the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis.

Recently rediscovered, Flores Mexicanas is being shown to the public for only the second time in nearly a century. The exhibition pairs two galleries: one dedicated to the work of Ramos Martínez, a father of Mexican Modernism, and an accompanying gallery of more than 25 paintings, works on paper, and textiles by other renowned artists working in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century.

Currently closed to the public due to coronavirus cautions, the museum's online view of the exhibition provides visitors the opportunity to explore the meanings behind depictions of women created during a transformative period in Mexican history.

The highlight of the show is Flores Mexicanas, the last painting Ramos Martínez completed before moving to California. This ornate 9-by-12-foot work was given as a wedding gift in 1929 to the famed aviators Anne and Charles Lindbergh, who met in Mexico City, by the Mexican president, Emilio Portes Gil. The painting depicts four sumptuously dressed women in an idyllic landscape, surrounded by luscious flowers, and has been interpreted as a representation of Mexico’s diverse racial heritage as well as an allegory of the four seasons. The Lindberghs later entrusted Flores Mexicanas to the Missouri Historical Society, where it remained off view. Recently unearthed, brought out of storage, and conserved, Flores Mexicanas went on view this past summer for the first time in 87 years.

Francisco Dosamantes , Three Women with Braids , n.d., lithograph, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase, 1951.88 . Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art

Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art marks the inaugural presentation by Dr. Mark A. Castro, the DMA’s first Jorge Baldor Curator of Latin American Art.