who writes museum labels – what makes a good museum label

Frida Kahlo, Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia) (1928): Brown-skinned and black-haired, Salvadora and Herminia overlap one another, their bodies pressed into the foreground by thick foliage, alive with butterflies and ripening fruit. Although Kahlo originally planned to depict their ruffled aprons, she eliminated the detail that would mark them as muchachas, or domestic workers. Her heroic depiction of working-class, mixed-race women would have been practically inconceivable in Mexico before the Revolution (1910–20). In the wake of this civil war, middle-class artists like Kahlo looked to marginalized peoples as the models for fine art and representations of progressive politics.