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Sunday, April 17, 2005
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
San Diego Museum of Art: April 16-June 12, 2005
Madre María Encarnación Regalado, Artist unknown (Quito School), oil on canvas, 1860. 60 cm x 45 cm. Monasterio de la Concepción, Quito, Ecuador.
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits marks the first time that a comprehensive exhibition of Latin American portraiture has toured the United States. Coming to the San Diego Museum of Art this spring, the exhibition brings together 114 objects from museums across Latin America, Europe, the United States, and private collections, most of which have never before been shown publicly in this country. The objects, which include paintings, sculpture, photography, and work in mixed media, reveal the richness of Latin America's portrait tradition, from pre-Columbian times to the present day. ...