This page endeavors to offer some historic context for the works of Philip Stein, presenting information on those artists who were part of, or closely associated to, the school of Mexican Muralism Stein was so intimately involved with.

One reliable source of information was the American, Alma Reed, an amateur archaeologist and a journalist who possessed a great interest in Mexico. Ms. Reed took part in early archaeological digs at the Mayan sites of Uxmal, Chichén-Itzá, and Palenque, and reported on the marvelous discoveries for the New York Times.

Ms Reed was also enamored of Mexico's artists, which led her to write two authoritative books: The Mexican Muralists (Crown Publishers, 1960), and Orozco (originally published in 1932). Reed took a personal interest in the art of José Clemente Orozco, featuring his works in her New York gallery when few in the US paid attention to him.

In the words of Ms Reed:

"A list of those who have contributed to the inception, development and flowering of the Mexican national pictorial art has recently been compiled by Arq. Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Dr. Justino Fernández and Raúl Flores Guerrero.

The list, with some additions of our own, embraces not only the pre-Revolutionary masters who broke with the Academy, the great muralists of the Renaissance and the innovators of the second and third generation, but also artists of talent who have adopted Mexican nationality or who produce and live in Mexico, even some of temporary residence. Any complete roll call would require several pages, but the following painters, for their major or minor contributions, are included."

David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Philip Stein, Aceves Navarro, Martha Adams, Ignacio Aguirre, Ramón Alva de la Canal, Ramón Alva Guadarrama, Juan Manuel Anaya, Abraham Angel, Raúl Anguiano, Luis Arenal, Emilio Amero, Salas Anzures, Michael Baxte, Argüelles Bringas, Rolando Arjona, Dr. Atl, Bardasano, Bartolí, Feliciano Béjar, Arnold Belkin, Angelina Beloff, Adolfo Best-Maugard, Ignacio Beteta, Celia Calderón, Cantú, Gonzalo Carrasco, Eleonora Carrington, Castellanos , Fernando Castro Pacheco, Eduardo Cataño.

Whit Carter, Clausell, Climent, Benjamín Coria, Pedro Coronel, Rafael Coronel, Olga Costa, Miguel Covarrubias, Luis Lola Cueto, Roberto Cueva del Río, José Luis Cuevas, Jean Charlot, Gilberto Chávez, José Chávez Morado, Jorge Dubon, Francisco Díaz de León, Roberto Donis, Francisco Dosamantes, Echeverría, Francisco Eppens, Arturo Estrada, Leopoldo Estrada, Roberto Fernández Balbuena, Gariel Fernández Ledesma, Fernando Gamboa, Grace and Marion Greenwood, José García Narezo, Garduño, Roberto Garibay, Francisco Cornejo.

Crespo de la Serna, Angel Zárraga, Alfredo Zalce, Héctor Xavier, Hamilton Wolfe, Isabel Villaseñor, Remedios Varo, Leonardo Vadillo, Cordelia Urueta, Lucinda Urrusti, Valetta Swan, Arturo Souto, Juan Soriana, Waldemar Sjolander, Antonio Seguí, Carlos Sánchez, Mateo Saldaña, Matías Santoya, Rene del Salvador Cervantes, Luis Sahagún, Antonio Ruiz, Julio Ruelas, Ignácio Rosas, Francisco Romano, Rodríguez Luna, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Fermín Revueltas, Reyes Meza, Reyes Ferreira, Aurora Reyes (first female muralista), Joseph Raskob.

Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Alice Rahón, Fanny Rabel, Antonio Pujol, Miguel Prieto, Liliana Porter, Feliciano Peña, Antonio Peláez, Paredes, Ceferino Palencia, Máximo Pacheco, Trinidad Osorio, Orozco Romero, Orozco Rivera, Pablo O' Higgins, Juan O' Gorman, Crawford O' Gorman, Nishizawa, Nefero, Rudolfo Nieto, Enrique Morales Guerra, Luis Macias, Nicolas Moreno, Montoya, Roberto Montenegro, Andrés Salgo, Pepé Romero, Gabriel Maroto, Alfonso Michel, Guillermo Meza, Carlos Mérida, Pedro Medina.

Marcia Marx Bennett, Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, Amador Lugo, Rosa Lie Johannson, Luis Lopez Loza, Fernando Leal, Agustín Lazo, Xávier Lavalle, Frida Kahlo, María Izquierdo, María Izaquirre, Leandro Izaguirre, Francisco Icaza, Ernesto Icaza, Mateo Herrera, Eduardo Luis Jurado, Saturnino Herrán, Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin, Bulmaro Guzmán, Francisco Gutiérrez, Jesús Guerrero Galván, Xavier Guerrero, Manuel González Galván, González Camarena, Francisco Goitia, Gironella, Gunther Gerzo, Gedovius, Elvira Gascón.