Object Details
- Artist
- Alberto Valdés, born El Paso, TX 1918-died Los Angeles, CA 1998
- Exhibition Label
- Valdés’s paintings from the early 1960s fuse interests in European modernism, and indigenous and modern Mexican art. The palette and forms of this untitled painting resemble the patchwork compositions of French artist Sonia Delaunay and the muted, earthy canvases of Mexican painters Rufino Tamayo and Ricardo Martínez. Untitled (about 1965) recalls Paul Klee’s paintings where line drawings appear against varied fields of color. The delicate drawing that animates Valdés’s creation brings to mind the intricate line patterns of sculptural reliefs found on Mesoamerican architectural structures.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of David and Susan Valdés
- ca. 1960
- Object number
- 2013.46.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33.0 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2013.46.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7492b413b-d011-439e-b69b-6f13ef5ed200
