Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine

LACMA debuts Vincent Valdez’s oil painting El Chavez Ravine (2005–2007), which was recently added to the museum’s permanent collection through a gift from musician Ry Cooder. Painted on a 1953 Chevrolet ice cream truck, the work is a "mobile monument to the predominantly Mexican American community that was forcibly removed from Los Angeles’s Chavez Ravine to make way for the construction of Dodger Stadium in the late 1950s." Valdez's work is influenced by Mexican and American muralism.