Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he studied art and became interested in both ancient Mexican and contemporary popular art. In 1934, he moved to Mexico City, where he met Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and created his first large-scale mural. In 1937, he joined the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists) and cofounded the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Workshop), an artists’ print collective.Anguiano was deeply influenced by the Mexican Muralists’ use of art to promote social causes, and his first major exhibition included images of industry, factories, and organized labor movements. The seemingly monumental young girl in this painting resembles a princess seated upon a throne. She holds an orange, symbolizing not only the fruits of the Mexican soil and its workers, but also the bountiful future promised to the younger generation of Mexicans by populist politicians.