MASTERS OF LATIN AMERICA ~ at Boca Raton Museum of Art

Monday, 25 September 2006 08:12

BOCA RATON, FL - The Boca Raton Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of Masters of Latin America: Selections from the Joan and Milton Bagley Collection, Purvis Young: Paintings from the Street and Latin American Art from the Museum’s collection. The exhibitions will be on display through November 26.

MASTERS OF LATIN AMERICA: SELECTIONS FROM THE JOAN AND MILTON BAGLEY COLLECTION
Over the past three decades Joan and Milton Bagley have been passionately collecting Latin American art.  More than 60 paintings and sculptures, never before exhibited, by many of the most important Latin American artists of the last century.  Included are works by significant artists from more than ten countries including Carlos Alfonzo, Fernando Botero, Heriberto Calzada, Herman Camargo, Augustin Cardenas, Felipe Casteneda, Elena Climent, Heriberto Cogollo, Antonia Guzman, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Ignacio Iturria, Heriberto Juarez, Wilfredo Lam, Julio Larraz, Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Matta, Guillermo Meza, Chavez Morado, Armando Moralez, Jose Sylvia Ordonez, Amelia Pelaez, Diego Rivera, Fernando de Szyszlo and Francisco Zuniga.

LATIN AMERICAN ART FROM THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION
In recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Museum will exhibit 35 works by many of the most important 20^th century Latin American artists, from the traditional figurative sculpture of Armando Amayo and Francisco Zuniga, to the 1930s revolutionary masts David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco, the modernism of Armando Morales, Rufino Tamayo, and Matta, and the contemporary abstraction of Enrique Castro-Cid, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesus-Rafael Soto. English and Spanish language text panels, labels and signage.

The Boca Raton Museum of Art was founded in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton, and has evolved into one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. Celebrating its fifth year in its 44,000 square foot home in Mizner Park, the Museum has achieved international recognition as a world-class visual arts institution, presenting dynamic traveling exhibitions from acclaimed and emerging artists, and an outstanding permanent collection.

Visit www.bocamuseum.org for more information.