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Modern Mexican Art at SDMA and from Private Collections

Late last year, SDMA began the process of completely reinstalling each one of its major permanent collection galleries. With the arrival of Dr. Julia Marciari-Alexander, our new Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, this has moved forward quickly, and members will notice major changes in our space at virtually every turn in the Museum. For many years, a large area in the east wing of the building had been designated as the home for American art. As a result of new thought being given to that prominent piece of museum real estate, the curatorial team created a wholly new survey of the art from the United States based on permanent collection strengths; at the same time, they also conceived of permanent collection space for the art of Mexico at SDMA. This project was led by Vanessa Corbera, an energetic staff member in our curatorial department who has shown us some of the deeply held but heretofore unrecognized potential of this important collection area. For the first time ever at this museum, we now have a permanent gallery devoted to Latin American art.

All told, more than fifty works are part of these two carefully created installations. Dozens of the works on display have been in storage for many years, and we expect visitors will enjoy seeing some old favorites again, such as Head of Medusa (1884), a compelling drawing by Elihu Vedder, or Wayne Thiebaud’s ravishing Caged Pie (1961) (above). Additionally, thanks to many generous collectors in this community, SDMA is able to augment its permanent collection of Mexican and American U.S. painting with some important loans—as a result, seldom seen works by Lilly Martin Spencer, Hans Hofmann, Rufino Tamayo (see page one), and Marianela de la Hoz can be found in the galleries. I would like to express my appreciation to these lenders for sharing their works with us, as well as thank SDMA’s Latin American Arts Council for making this new presentation possible.

This exhibition has been curated by Vanessa M. Corbera, Curatorial Administrator at SDMA, with the assistance of Derrick R. Cartwright, The Maruja Baldwin Director.