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Joaquín Torres-García

1943 America, 1943

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Description

Maker

Title

1943 America

Year

1943

Medium

Oil on board

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

60 x 70.5 cm (23 5/8 x 27 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed LR:JTG Titled top:1943 America

Type

Credit

Gift of the Torres-Garcia family to the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

68.104

Projects & Publications

Publications

The First America

Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

Torres-García began making wooden toys when his children were young, and he continued the practice after he moved his family from Spain to New York in 1920. He marketed his designs as interchangeable art toys whose components could be fitted together according to the imagination of the user. This painting, made after Torres-García’s return to Uruguay, refers back to those toys through the interlocking shapes of figures, flags, numerals, letters, and steamship parts.

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