Dolores Huerta painting
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Lola de la Riva painted this acrylic on canvas in the mid-1960s. She visited the "skid-row" area of downtown Stockton where buses would pick up farm labor presumably to work in fields. The figure wearing a rebozo is Dolores Huerta. She was organizing with this group of workers (not sure if this was within the UFW establishment) and Lola happened to be there and made this portrait of that moment. Huerta was friends with Lola's older sister (Aunt Lucy) so Lola knew her before. The reflection on he
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