Death of Rubén Salazar
- Death of Rubén Salazar
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Frank Romero, Death of Rubén Salazar, 1986, oil, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment. © 1986, Frank Romero. Reproduced courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, from “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art.”
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Frank Romero grew up in the culturally mixed, middle-class Los Angeles community of Boyle Heights and was well into his career by the time he developed a consciousness of being a Latino artist. During the height of the Chicano civil rights movement in the early 1970s, as a member of the Chicano artists’ group “Los Four,” he attained a new, high-profile status in the larger art community. Romero worked as a designer for Charles Eames and A&M Records, and was the design director of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency when he designed the first section of the Broadway Sidewalk Project. Although he is known as one of L.A.’s foremost muralists, Romero is now primarily a studio artist.
