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A widely-lauded, cross-country tour which has recast early abstract painting with Agnes Pelton as a central – not forgotten – figure, culminates at the Palm Springs Art Museum through September 6th.

Los tres grandes indirectly helped shape U.S. cultural policy too. In 1933, George Biddle, an artist who had spent time with Rivera in Mexico, wrote a letter to his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had recently been sworn in as president. In it, he told Roosevelt about the ways in which the Mexican government had funded the creation of murals on government buildings as a way of expressing “the social ideas of the Mexican Revolution.” Roosevelt passed the letter along to the Treasury D...