ART GALLERY NEWS

JACK RUTBERG FINE ARTS

600 South Lake Ave., #102 ∙ Pasadena, CA 91106 ∙ Tel (323) 938-5222

jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com



November 3 - December 21, 2024

Opening Reception November 3

3:00 pm to 6:00 pm


HISPANIC LEGACY


October 15 marked the end of National Hispanic Month, which is officially celebrated from September 15 to October 15.


This annual cultural event prompted us at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts to reflect upon our decades-long exhibition history that so significantly featured artists of Hispanic origins - those from Spain, Mexico, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Venezuela.


It inspired us to reach into the gallery's expansive collection and to

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Salvador Dali, Limp Cranes and Cranian Harp 1935

culminate the months-long revolving exhibition "ART: A to Z" by featuring paintings, drawings, prints,and sculpture by some of the foremost artists of Hispanic origins.


Included in this revolving exhibition are works by artists of Spain including Francisco Goya, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Antoni Clave, Antoni Tapies and the formidable Catalan artist introduced and represented in the U.S. by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Jordi Alcaraz.


Artists of Central and South America include Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Francisco Zuniga, Rufino Tamayo, Gunther Gerzso, Rafael Coronel, Alfredo Ramos-Martinez, Jean Charlot and Jose Luis Cuevas.


Artists of Spain have always ranked among the most important artists since the early 20th century; so much so that a common art world cliche jokingly reflected that "the Spanish made art for the French to sell to the Americans".

By contrast, in the U.S. until the 1970s, Latin American artists, with few exceptions, were widely known by way of only the most eminent Mexican muralists, Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco, and few widely exhibited artists such as Zuniga, Cuevas and Tamayo. Frida Kahlo, by contrast, was barely considered. Oh, how things have changed!


California had a particularly significant history in relation to Latin America as it was part of Mexico until 1848. On the occasion of the Getty's endeavor in 2017, "Pacific Standard Time:LA/LA (Los Angeles/Latin America)", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts again reached in

Alfredo Ramos-Martinez, Sombrero 1935

to its collection's holdings and presented an exhibition keying upon Los Angeles' neglected history - "Artists of Mexico". A brief video of that exhibition can be viewed by clicking this link:

https://jackrutbergfinearts.com/videos/#artists-of-mexico


Additional videos of past Jack Rutberg Fine Arts exhibitions related to "Hispanic Legacy" can be viewed on the gallery's website video page.

They include:

Jordi Alcaraz: https://jackrutbergfinearts.com/videos/#j-alcaraz

and

Francisco Zuniga: https://jackrutbergfinearts.com/videos/#f-zuniga

Francisco Zuniga, Familia Indigena, 1976



"Hispanic Legacy" opening November 3 through December 21, is the latest iteration of the gallery's revolving exhibition series

"Art: A to Z" offering the community an ongoing view of the gallery's collection.


JACK RUTBERG FINE ARTS

600 South Lake Ave., #102 ∙ Pasadena, CA 91106 ∙ Tel (323) 938-5222

jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com -- www.jackrutbergfinearts.com


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