[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 2 (Thursday, January 7, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E43-E44]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IN HONOR OF MAESTRO RAUL ANGUIANO

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                          HON. LORETTA SANCHEZ

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, January 6, 1999

  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to pay tribute to Mexico's 
greatest living muralist, the highly acclaimed artist, Maestro Raul 
Anguiano. It is also my great pleasure to welcome the Maestro to The 
Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, where he will place the first brush 
stroke on a mural for the Museum.
  The Maestro is known throughout the world as Mexico's ambassador of 
art. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries around

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the world including the Palace of Fine Arts, the National Museum of 
Prints and the Museum of Plastic Arts in Mexico City, the Museum of Man 
in San Diego, the Carnegie Art Museum, the Institute Italo, Latino 
Americao (Rome), Casas Reales Museum (Santa Domingo), and the Armand 
Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. His solo exhibits include Moscow, 
Leningrad, Peking, Rome, Assissi and Venice. HIs work has also been 
exhibited at the Santora Arts Center in Santa Ana, CA.
  His works are included in permanent exhibits in many major museums 
around the world. Most recently his painting the ``Crucifixation'' was 
accepted by Pope John Paul II and is now in the collection at the 
Vatican.
  Raul Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, February 26, 
1915. He began painting at the age of twelve. As a child, he would 
paint or draw on any space available; his creativity and genius could 
not be contained. His mother, Abigail, recognized her son's early signs 
of genius and encouraged him by providing him with sketch books. The 
young Raul was driven by sheer talent and desire to create the visions 
that were given to him.
  Along with his contemporary, Diego Rivera, Maestro Anguiano has 
influenced other Mexican artists here in the United States. R.C. Gorman 
has credited Anguiano with his ``aesthetic influence as well as subject 
matter.''
  Maestro Anguiano has given to the world a precious gift of beauty 
that will live on forever by creating a mural for the permanent 
collection of the Bowers Museum. I commend Maestro Raul Anguiano for 
his significant artistic contribution to the history of art and his 
impact on contemporary artists around the world.

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