Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, Javier Arango Ferrer reviews and criticizes the IX Salón de Artistas Colombianos [Ninth Salon of Colombian Artists] that opened at the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá on August 7, 1952. Participants in the event included [...]

In this article, Vienna-born critic and art historian Walter Engel discusses the Primer Salón de Arte Femenino [First Salon of Female Art] held at the Museo Nacional of Colombia in 1951. Engel addresses the event in terms of its gender-based [...]

In the book Pintoras colombianas contemporáneas, Austrian critic Walter Engel presents a group of [women] artists that actively participated in the country’s art scene during the forties and fifties. Engel explains that the selection is not based [...]