Roberto Chavez, Iconic Artist Who Influenced Generations of Chicanx Artists, Dies at 92

Roberto Chavez, a major figure within US Latinx art history whose work has influenced generations of artists that followed, died on December 17 of natural causes in Arivaca, Arizona. He was 92. The news was confirmed by the artist’s daughter, Sonna Chavez, in an email. Chavez was part of a generation of Mexican American artists working in LA beginning in the early 1950s, before the Chicano Art Movement that they would come to influence. That cohort, including Chavez and five other artists,