Latin American

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.