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Introduction

"De Donde Vengo"

Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
March 15 - April 28, 1996

From the time of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s, North Americans have become increasingly aware of the artistic contributions of Latin and South Americans. The Mexican Muralists -- Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros most prominent among them -- were among the first Latin Americans to assimilate and adapt modern European art to suit their own cultural visions. This international exchange of ideas accompanied by a resurgence of interest in pre-Columbian South American cultures runs throughout Latin American art from 1910 to the present day.

From the earliest politically and socially concerned muralists, through modernist abstractionists, Surrealist visionaries, Op and Pop art followers, neo-expressionist painters, to artists of the 1980s and 1990s, Latin and South Americans have searched for their own identities in the art worlds of their native countries, the United States, and Europe (notably Spain and France). Hence De donde vengo -- "Where I come from," or conversely ''Where I go," describes the dual cultural nature that is the triumph of Latin American art.

Most of the works of art in this exhibition are drawn from the Museum's Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art. In the mid-1960s, Mrs. Day's family began funding Museum acquisitions of Latin-American art as a memorial to her work here as a docent and her lifelong interest in the fine arts. The collection continues to grow. The most recent acquisition is The Spirit of the Colony by Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, purchased in 1994. Several important paintings in these galleries are gifts from other Museum supporters who have recognized the international significance of the Latin­American collection at RISD.

Selected Objects

Candido Portinari

Portrait of Maria, 1932

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Optic Parable (Parábola Optica), 1931
No Image Available

Rogelio Polesello

Pintura, 1966

Fernando Botero

The Pinzón Family, 1965

Aldemir Martins

Cangaceiro, 1967

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell

Spirit of the Colony, 1993
No Image Available

Catalina Parra

Sinusitus, 1981

José Clemente Orozco, designer

Parade, 1935

José Bedia Valdés

All My Life Like This?, 1991
No Image Available

José Gamarra

Jour V / J, 1978

Juan O'Gorman

Pulque Drinkers, 1929

Roberto Matta

The Remainer, 1945

Gunther Gerzso

Orange, Yellow and Green Landscape (Paisaje Naranja, Amarillo y Verde), 1966

Joaquín Torres-García

Construction with Central Anchor, 1932

Marcelo Bonevardi

Reliquary II, 1965
No Image Available

Ernesto Deira

No. 1623, 1966

Jorge de la Vega

Historia de Vampiros (Vampire Story), 1963

Rafael Ferrer

The Balata River: “In the mountains, there you feel free” (El Rio Balatá: "En las montañas te sientes libre"), 1988

Rufino Tamayo

Two Women, 1939
No Image Available

Armando Morales

Reportage Amazonico V, 1960

Claudio Bravo

Fur Coat Back, 1976

Jean Charlot

The Tortilla Lesson, 1938

Luis Benedit

Pareja de mi Pueblo, 1967
No Image Available

Marisol, printmaker

Pappagallo, 1965

Diego Rivera

Study for The Conquest of Air, 1932

Gerd Leufert

Tirima, 1966

Claudio Bravo

Fur Coat Front, 1976

Santiago Cardenas

Blackboard, 1982

Fernando de Szyszlo

La Ejecución de Tupac-Amaru XII (The Execution of Tupac-Amaru XII), 1965

Antonio Henrique Amaral, artist

Latin-American Pastime (Passatempo Latino-Americano), 1967

Jésus Rafael Soto

Green and Black Immaterial Curves, 1966

Sebastião Salgado

A Moment of Rest, Serra Pelada Mine, 1986
No Image Available

Luis Felipe Noé

Three Doors, 1964

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Physichromie No. 346, 1967

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)

Untitled, 1966

Agustín Victor Casasola

A Village Evacuation During the Ten Tragic Days, February, 1913, 1913

Joaquín Torres-García

Untitled, 1933

Wifredo Lam

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

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Head, ca. 1930

Luis Cruz Azaceta

Self-Portrait as Mechanized Doggie, 1984

Lidya Buzio

Roofscape Vessel, 1991

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