Mark A. Castro is the Jorge Baldor Curator of Latin American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Mireida Velázquez is director of the Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City.
“Ángel’s 20 extant works reproduce beautifully in a slim but convincing catalog that doesn’t overstate the case. . . . [His portraits] combined Mexico’s burgeoning populist aesthetic with a private romanticism that seems nonetheless to have sought clarity on the promise of his country’s Revolution.”—Walker Mimms, New York Times, “Best Art Books of 2023”