"224 New Acquisitions Make Museum of Modern Art Collection of Modern Latin American Art Most Important in World" press release for "Exhibition of Latin American Art in the Museum's Collection"
Installation view, "Road to Victory." May 21, 1942 through October 4, 1942.
Photograph ©1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

José Orozco working on the fresco Dive Bomber and Tank, commissioned through the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund. 1940.
Photograph ©1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

"The Mexican school of mural painting... developed shortly after the war and has held it's place as formost in the world. "Both through it's success in securing public walls and through its achievement in making works of art out of social, political and historical subject matter, it has had an incalculable influence on painting in the United States."