The Hispanic Society Museum & Library (HSM&L) is about to inaugurate “Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of The Hispanic Society Museum & Library”, an exhibition that reveals hidden gems from the museum’s extensive permanent collection that includes more from 750 , objects.
Curated by Dr. Madeleine Haddon, the exhibition will open to the public from from February to 17 April 2022. The objects presented are part of the permanent collection of the cultural institution and help illuminate the wide range of arts, literature and history of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from ancient times to the present day.
During the recent renovation of the museum, a selection of these works toured the world, from the Museum Nacional del Prado in Madrid and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City to the Museo de Albuquerque, the Cincinnati Art Museum and, more recently, the Museo de Bellas Artes. Now, with the opening of HSM&L’s newly renovated exhibition space in the East Building Gallery, these objects will be coming home for the first time in five years before many of them continue on to the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Academy of Art. in London.
“Nuestra Casa…” shows that the HSML collection extends far beyond El Greco’s works of art, Goya and Sorolla, for which she has historically been known, to masterpieces in a variety of media by relatively unknown Latino artists.
To evaluate and present these works through a new lens, HSM&L hired a new curator for this exhibition, Dr. Madeleine Haddon, curator and art historian at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
“Our House only scratches the surface in terms of the variety of treasures that visitors will be able to come see at HSM&L once the museum reopens. doors completely,” explains Dr. Haddon. “Visitors will leave with the knowledge that the HSM&L has the most important collection in the United States to learn about the rich and diverse cultural heritage of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world.”
The works that are presented in Our House, many of which have not been Regularly featured in the Museum, they have an origin ranging from Spain and Mexico to Puerto Rico, Peru and beyond, all in chronology from the 10th to the 20th centuries. These works include the 19th century watercolors of Pancho Fierro and El hombre de Montevideo (1923-5) by Miguel Viladrich Vilá, which represent people of color and the racial diversity of colonial Latin America.
In addition, the exhibition will exhibit works that have always been considered among the masterpieces of HSM&L, as the Duchess of Alba by Francisco de Goya (1536) and Portrait of a Girl by Diego Velázquez (c. 1638-42).
In detail:
What: Exhibition “Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of The Hispanic Society Museum & Library”
Where: The Hispanic Society Museum & Library – 613 155th street NY NY 10032
When: from 17 from February to 17 of April. From Thursday to Sunday, from to 6 pm