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Introduction

Artistic Expressions of the Human Spirit

Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
November 21, 1997 - April 26, 1998

Selected Objects

Candido Portinari

Portrait of Maria, 1932

Rufino Tamayo

Head of a Girl (Cabeza de Niña), 1942

Marcelo Grassmann

Untitled, 1963

Fernando Botero

The Pinzón Family, 1965

Antonio Frasconi, designer

Self-Portrait, 1950

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell

Spirit of the Colony, 1993

José Bedia Valdés

All My Life Like This?, 1991

Diego Rivera, designer

Sleep (El Sueno), 1932

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

The Good Reputation Sleeping (La Buena Fama Durmiendo), 1938

Antonio Seguí, designer

Untitled, 1965

Juan O'Gorman

Pulque Drinkers, 1929

Roberto Matta

The Remainer, 1945
No Image Available

Ernesto Deira

No. 1623, 1966

Jorge de la Vega

Historia de Vampiros (Vampire Story), 1963

Wifredo Lam

Near the Virgin Islands (Près des Îles Vierges), 1959
No Image Available

José Luis Cuevas, designer

L'Amour Fou, 1968

Alfredo Castañeda

Antiguo Recuerdo, 1972

Claudio Bravo

Fur Coat Back, 1976
No Image Available

Armando Morales, designer

Nude in Front of a Mirror, 1980

Luis Herrera-Guevara

St. Paul's Cathedral, London, ca. 1933

Jean Charlot

The Tortilla Lesson, 1938

Luis Benedit

Pareja de mi Pueblo, 1967
No Image Available

David Alfaro Siqueiros, designer

Portrait of Officer, 1911

Claudio Bravo

Fur Coat Front, 1976

Antonio Henrique Amaral, artist

Latin-American Pastime (Passatempo Latino-Americano), 1967
No Image Available

Luis Felipe Noé

Three Doors, 1964

Diego Rivera

Woman Nursing Child, 1929

Roberto Aizenberg

Seated Figure, 1966

Wifredo Lam

The Eternal Presence (An Homage to Alejandro García Caturla), 1944

Rómulo Macció

Cara Aparte, 1965

Diego Rivera

Self-portrait (Autorretrato), 1930

Luis Cruz Azaceta

Self-Portrait as Mechanized Doggie, 1984

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