"La Causa" (The Cause)
Mark Vallen 2011
Oil on canvas
40" x 36" inches

Artist's statement:

"This is one of two paintings I created especially for ¡ADELANTE!, an exhibit of Chicano art at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, California. La Causa is a portrait of militants from the Brown Beret organization, a Chicano group that gained notoriety in the late 1960s for struggling to advance the civil and human rights of Mexican-Americans."

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¡ADELANTE! runs at the Forest Lawn Museum from September 9, 2011 through January 1, 2012.