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Latin American

The Latin American art collection features more than 1,000 works from across North, Central and South America. From Spanish Colonial to contemporary works by living artists, the collection explores artistic traditions that are especially meaningful to our shared experience in a border region.

Latin American

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About the Collection

The Latin American Collection encompasses more than 1,000 works of art from the mid-17th century to today, spanning a considerable geographic range, including Mexico, Central America, the Carribean, and South America. It features Spanish Colonial artworks created in the territories of the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, including religious paintings, portraits, silverwork, furniture, and decorative arts, of which the earliest dates to 1665. These historical objects are enriched by remarkable works by early- and mid-20th-century Mexican painters and printmakers such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Guadalupe Posada, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, José Chávez Morado, Arnold Belkin, Carlos Orozco Romero, and Rufino Tamayo. Artists of our time provide a more contemporary perspective from diverse Latin American regions, including Jesús Rafael Soto, Roberto Matta, José Bedia, Toirac, Jac Leirner, Rivane Neuenschwander, Liliana Porter, Miguel Angel Ríos, Nahum B. Zenil, Teresa Margolles, and Waltercio Caldas, among others.

Collection Highlights

El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (The Suicide of Dorothy Hale)

Frida Kahlo, Mexican, 1907 - 1954, 1939, painting, oil on Masonite with painted frame, Gift of an anonymous donor

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Desnuda sentada con brazos en alto (Frida Kahlo) (Seated Nude with Raised Arms [Frida Kahlo])

Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886 - 1957, 1930, print; lithographs, lithograph, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Orme Lewis

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Portrait of Doña Maria Moreno y Buenaventura (Retrato de Doña Maria Moreno y Buenaventura)

Unknown, Mexico, c. 1760, painting, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Denison Kitchel

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“Que dicen calandrias…” (Illustration of a proverb…)

Raúl Anguiano, Mexican, 1915 - 2006, 1939, postcard, lithograph on card stock, Gift of Gail Rosenberg Zucker

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74 autorretratos el día que murió Picasso (74 Self-portraits on the Day Picasso Died)

José Luis Cuevas, Mexican, 1934 - 2017, 1973, drawing, ink on paper, Gift of Jose Tasende

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Abstract Composition (Composición abstracta)

Carlos Mérida, Guatemalan, 1891 - 1984, 1974, painting, oil on canvas, Gift of David and Mary Patino

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Adoración de indios (Indians’ Worship)

Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Mexican, 1871 - 1946, 1942, painting, gouache on newspaper, Gift of the Friends of Mexican Art

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After Kafka (De Kafka)

José Luis Cuevas, Mexican, 1934 - 2017, 1957, drawing, pen and ink gouache wash with pencil on paper, Gift of Mr. Benjamin D. Bernstein

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Alegoria (Allegory)

Alberto Beltrán, Mexican, 1923 - 2002, 1946, postcard, lithograph on card stock, Gift of Gail Rosenberg Zucker

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EXHIBITIONS

On view for a limited time, exhibitions present art from across the centuries and the globe, from iconic fashion to Old Master paintings, contemporary photography to historical objects of Asia.

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COLLECTIONS

Featuring more than 20,000 objects, the collection spans the globe, bringing the world to our city, and our city to the world.

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ARIZONA ARTIST AWARDS

Since 1986, Phoenix Art Museum has awarded more than $350,000 to over 200 Arizona-based artists through two annual artist awards opportunities.

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