Martín Ramírez: The Last Works
Brooke Davis Anderson is director and curator of the Contemporary Center at the American Folk Art Museum. She has organized numerous exhibitions for the museum, includingMartín Ramírezin 2007. As director of The Henry Darger Study Center, Anderson oversees exhibitions and documentation of the museum's extensive Henry Darger archive. Anderson has written and lectured extensively on American art, in particular African American art and contemporary self-taught artists and their work.Richard Rodriguez is an essayist and the author of several books, including an appraisal of Mexico and America,Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father(1992). He also works as a television and print journalist in the United States and Europe.Wayne Thiebaud is one of America's premier painters and is on the faculty at the University of California, Davis. He first received international acclaim during the American Pop Art Movement of the 1960s, with his uniquely lush paintings of cakes, pies, and other ubiquitous American foods and products. His work is in major museums and private collections in the United States and abroad.