Niñas (Girls) by Petrona VieraNo date / Oil on canvas / 45”x41” / National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay
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1936 / Oil on canvas / 29”x37 3/8” / Private collection
Self-Portrait by Emilio Pettoruti1918 / Oil on hardboard / 21 1/4”x15 3/4” / National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina, Buenos Aires
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Deer Dance by Carlos Mérida1935 / Oil on canvas / 24 3/16”x20 3/16” / Philadelphia Museum of Art
1926 / Oil on canvas / 22”x30” / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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c.1940 / Oil on canvas / 19”x15” / Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes,
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. The observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30-day period starting on September 15 and ending on October 15. It was enacted into law on August 17, 1988, on the approval of Public Law 100-402. The day of September 15 is significant because it is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September18, respectively. Also, Columbus Day or Día de la Raza, which is October 12, falls within this 30 day period.
https://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/about/
Links to Selected Exhibits and Collections here~ https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/exhibits-and-collections/
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For more information on the artists featured in the slide show:
Judith F. Baca~ http://www.artnews.com/2017/04/19/concrete-history-chicana-muralist-judith-f-baca-goes-from-the-great-wall-to-the-museum-wall/
Daniel Martin Diaz~ http://danielmartindiaz.com/about.php
Carmen Lomas Garza~ https://americanart.si.edu/artist/carmen-lomas-garza-6783
Ester Hernandez~ http://artinprint.org/article/ester-hernandez-sun-mad/
Yolanda Lopez~ https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/cema/lopez_y
Soraida Martinez~ https://theartguide.com/artists/soraida-martinez
Manuel Neri~ https://anderson.stanford.edu/programs-exhibitions/manuel-neri-assertion-of-the-figure/
Royal Chicano Air Force~ http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/exhibits2/archive/artists.php?op=view&id=3&media=info
Richard Serra~ https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/richard-serra
Patssi Valdez~ https://americanart.si.edu/artist/patssi-valdez-7289
Emigdio Vasquez~ https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/cema/vasquez_brochure
Los Four~ https://latinomurals.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/losfour/
1920 / Oil on canvas / 19”x24” / Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
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1928 / Oil on canvas adhered to Nordex / 25 3/4”x22” / MALI, Lima Art Museum, Peru
Guernica by Pablo Picasso1937 / Oil on canvas / 137 1/2”x305 3/4” / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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1931 / Fresco on reinforced cement in galvanized-steel framework / 93 3/4”x74” / MoMA
Las Playeras (The Shirts) by Celia Castro1889 / Oil on canvas / O’Higginiano and Fine Arts Museum, Talca, Chile
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Fountain of the Nereids by Lola Mora1903 / Carrara marble, pink granite, and stone / 75’heightx37’circumference / Buenos Aires
1886 / Oil on canvas / 71”x87” / National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
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c.1893 / Oil on canvas / 27 3/3”x44 1/4” / Private collection
East Village resident Drunell Levinson…announced the September 11 Quilts Memorial project on a website she created especially for that purpose. Calling on volunteers to submit 3’x 6’ or 3’x 3’ quilt panels, she left the choice of materials and the interpretation to the individual artists. Levinson separated her work into two parallel activities: The first was to raise awareness of the project, solicit volunteers and organize public exhibitions; the second was to make a documentary of the participants’ experiences of the September 11th 2001 event, and to explore how these experiences motivated them to create art. By September 10, 2002, the project consisted of 94 unique quilts accompanied by artists’ statements, photographs, memorabilia, emails, and a dedicated website.
Over the next two years, the quilts were displayed as an ensemble in fourteen exhibitions across the United States, as well as in a special presentation in Japan. In addition, Levinson created a 20-minute documentary video entitled “September 11 Quilts: Mending a Diverse Community of Artists.” The September 11 Memorial Exhibition quilts, supporting materials, and documentary were officially donated to the National September 11 Memorial Museum, forming an important addition to the Museum’s growing collection of art made in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
https://www.911memorial.org/tribute/the-september-11-quilt-project
Photographs are from “September 11 Quilts”
See more at https://www.september11quilts.org/index.html
Butcher of Bogota by Ramón Torres Méndezc.1849-1849 / Illuminated lithography / 9”x11 1/2”
Museum of Republic Bank Art Collection, Bogota, Colombia
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Cavalry Combat in the Age of Roses by Carlos Morelc.1839 / Oil on canvas / 17 1/2”x21” / National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina, Buenos Aires
