The Arts of Latin America

Description

The AD&A Museum houses a number of works representing the artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and the Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the present.  These objects include but are not limited to Retablos, Santos, Masks as well as contemporary prints and drawings.

Collection Items

MEXICAN
Walking Priest (Possibly St. Francis of Assissi)

MEXICAN
Fragment from an Altar Front: Holy Family

MEXICAN
Baroque Panel of Patroness Saint

GUATEMALAN OR HONDURAN
Standing Virgin Mary

GUATEMALAN
Torso of Man Praying

GUATEMALAN OR HONDURAN
Priest with Bible, Standing on Dias

GUATEMALAN
Torso of a Woman Praying

GUATEMALAN
Padre and Volcanoes

working cartoon for "Grisaille Fresco Panels"

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
Santo, St. Francis

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
Saint Dominic with Monstrance

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
San Ram Nonato

ARTIST UNKNOWN
St. Thomas Aquinas

PERUVIAN
Mary Magdalene

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN, ANDEAN
Our Lady of Candlemas

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
Saint Theresa

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
St. Rose of Limas

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
Virgin of Mercy with St. Augustine and St. Jerome

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICA
Archangel Gabriel?

MEXICAN
The Holy Trinity

MEXICAN
Virgin of the Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Francis

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICA
Virgin of the Rosary

ANDEAN
Virgin and Child

MEXICAN
Archbishop with Christ Child

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

DOSAMENTES, Francisco
Women of Oaxaca

ALMARAZ, Carlos
1984 Olympic Poster

MEXICAN
Queretero

MEXICAN
Sugar Bowl

VILLALPANDO, Cristóbal de
The Mystic Marriage of St. Rose of Lima

Princess Pissing

MEXICAN, HUICHOL PEOPLE
Huichol Mexican Mask

MEXICAN, HUICHOL PEOPLE
Huichol Mexican Mask

MEXICAN, HUICHOL PEOPLE
Huichol Mexican Mask

MEXICAN, HUICHOL PEOPLE
Huichol Mexican mask

MEXICAN, HUICHOL PEOPLE
Huichol, Mexican mask

BIRK, Sandow
Old Folsom State Prison - Represa, CA

Helguera, Pablo
An Accident: America

Stone Breakers #2, Ilha Bela, Brazil

CANTU, Federico
La Caracola

CANTU, Federico
Creation of the Unicorn

working cartoon for "Grisaille Fresco Panels"

working cartoon for "Grisaille Fresco Panels"

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

MERIDA, Carlos
Untitled

Untitled (man and boy embracing)

Artist unknown
St. Thomas Aquinas

CANTU, Federico
The Return of Achilles

St. Anne

Artist unknown, Peruvian
Mary Magdalene
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