Join us for an intimate tour of Modern Cuban Painters from Havana to New York Revisited with guest curators Elizabeth T. Goizueta and Cristina Figueroa Vives.
The exhibition returns to a pivotal moment in 1944, when Cuban modern art entered the U.S. cultural landscape through the Museum of Modern Art’s first exhibition dedicated to Cuban painting. It reexamines the role of New York, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and the network of galleries that helped shape the reception of Cuban modernism in the 1940s.
Bringing together paintings, drawings, archival materials, and historical documents, the exhibition offers a focused view of the movement at its height.
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Image caption: Mariano Rodríguez, El desayuno (The Breakfast), 1943. Oil on canvas, 30 ½ x 41 inches. Photo Cora Jean Rafe. © Mariano Rodríguez Estate