50 Years, 50 Works, 100th Anniversary

An exhibit organized by the IDB Cultural Center in collaboration with the OAS Art Museum of the Americas

Curated by Felix Angel

February 16, 2010 – March 31, 2010

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Cultural Center in collaboration with the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS), “50 Years, 50 Works, 100th Anniversary” celebrates 50 years of the Inter American Development Bank and 100 years of the OAS House of the Americas architectural complex. The exhibitdraws exclusively from the collections of the IDB Cultural Center and the OAS Art Museum of the Americas. The exhibitionincludes works reflecting significant Latin American and Caribbean movements of the 20th century, from the Mexican mural school and early modernists to the WWII avant-garde and the generation of the post-war years that produced some of the artists whose work provided the foundations of the OAS art collection beginning in the late 1940s.

FEATURED ARTISTS
Diego Rivera
David Alfaro Siqueiros
José Clemente Orozco
Emilio Pettoruti
Pedro Figari
Joaquín Torres García
Cándido Portinari
Carlos Mérida
Rufino Tamayo
Roberto Matta
Wifredo Lam
René Portocarrero
Amelia Peláez
Alejandro Obregón
Jesús Rafael Soto
Carlos Cruz-Diez
José Luis Cuevas
Rogelio Polesello
Mauricio Lasansky
Maria Luisa Pacheco
Manabú Mabe
Fernando de Szyszlo
Everald Brown
Joseph Jean-Gilles