Thoma Collection of viceregal art exhibited at The Nelson-Atkins
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Thoma Collection of viceregal art exhibited at The Nelson-Atkins
Unidentified workshop (Perú). Our Lady of Cocharcas, 1751. Oil and gold on canvas, 49 7/8 x 41 1/8 in. Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma, 2011.040. Image: Public domain, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, photo by Jamie Stukenberg.



KANSAS CITY, MO.- A focus exhibition comprising 15 works made by artists in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru during Spanish colonial rule in the 17th and 18th centuries opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Feb. 12 and runs through Sept. 4, 2022. Paintings from South America: The Thoma Collection (1600-1800) contains work from the distinguished holdings of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation in Chicago, which is committed to promoting the art of the Spanish Americas through scholarship and exhibition of its extensive collection from South America and the Caribbean. These offer visitors a major opportunity to learn about an important art history moment: the development of an extraordinarily vibrant art form that fused European precedents with indigenous elements in the Americas.

“These exquisite works from an important private foundation will be a revelatory first look for many of our visitors and provide a major contribution to their understanding of viceregal art,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. “Most of the paintings in this exhibition originally hung in private homes, where they both gave pleasure and invited intimate contemplation and prayer.”

During the 17th and 18th centuries, cities in present-day Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador were among the largest populations in the modern world, with extraordinary wealth based upon natural resources. The artwork created there both celebrated viceregal society as well as helped evangelize and spread Roman Catholicism. Spanish South American art is a dynamic, unique combination of styles and influences from visiting Italian artists translated and adapted by local hands and minds. In recent years, scholars have recognized that viceregal art’s unique characteristics are not a peripheral, provincial echo of the mainstreams of art production but instead a vital, creative force that participated in a global artistic economy.

The works on view represent primarily Roman Catholic subjects, since paintings and sculptures adorned churches and convents across Spanish America. The Thoma Collection includes paintings by Melchor Pérez Holguín and Bernardo Bitti. The artists who created the other paintings cannot be identified, though they reflect styles generated in the Andean centers of Potosí, Bolivia; Quito, Ecuador; and Lima and Cuzco, in present-day Peru.










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