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Pearl and Stanley Goodman Latin American Collection and Recent Acquisitions from the Museum’s Latin American Collection on view at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
Pearl and Stanley Goodman’s Latin American collection and recent acquisitions from the Museum’s Latin American collection are on view at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University from May 8 through Dec. 5, 2010, bringing together some of the most important modern and contemporary Latin American artists over the last 100 years.
Diego Rivera, Stone Worker (Oil on canvas, 1945) from Collection of Pearl and Stanley Goodman
This major exhibition mirrors the diverse Hispanic landscape of South Florida with influential artists from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, El Salvador and Brazil represented among the works on view.
Acclaimed Fort Lauderdale art collectors Pearl and Stanley Goodman began their collection of Latin American modernists in the 1980s. They were attracted to Latin American art because it tells “a story, usually with clear political and social messages.” Pearl, a retired educator, explores “different periods by each artist” she collects. Stanley, an artist and retired cardiologist, tends to “emphasize the academic merit of the work.” Together, they have built an impressive collection that includes masters such as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Joaquín Torres García, José Clemente Orozco and Wifredo Lam.
Complementing the Goodman collection are works by Latin American contemporary artists from the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale’s collection. Curator and Head of Collection Research Jorge Santis mounted this exhibition of works by artists from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. Featured artists include Puerto Rican photographer and Miami Beach resident Carlos Betancourt, Cuban-born artist Ernesto Oroza, Mexican photographer Dulce Pinzón, Salvadorian painter Benjamín Cañas and Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca.
“Pearl and Stanley Goodman began collecting Latin American art as the field itself was being identified as an area worthy of attention, acquisition and scholarship,” said Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale executive director Irvin Lippman. “In many ways, both the Goodmans and the great interest in Latin American art developed together.”
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954-262-0243, rsantiago@moafl.org