Free Event
Through Wednesday, December 1, 2010


After an absence of three years, Sorolla’s Vision of Spain will return to exhibition on May 8, 2010, in The Hispanic Society of America, following a record-breaking tour of Spain.

* Beginning on May 8, 2010, we encourage everyone to visit the Hispanic Society, located on Audubon Terrace at Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets, to experience like never before Sorolla’s Vision of Spain in its renewed splendor.


Over the past century no other artist has been more closely associated with The Hispanic Society of America than the Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). With the finest collection of works by Sorolla outside of Spain, the Hispanic Society through most of its history has been a required visit, if not a pilgrimage, for all who admire the “painter of light.” Sorolla’s masterwork Vision of Spain, comprised of fourteen monumental oil paintings on canvas depicting the peoples and regions of Spain, has served as a highlight of the Hispanic Society’s museum since it was first exhibited in 1926. Having received the commission for the Hispanic Society in 1911 from its founder, Archer Milton Huntington, over the next eight years Sorolla traveled throughout the regions of Spain, producing hundreds of preparatory sketches before completing Vision of Spain in 1919.


Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library
Located on Audubon Terrace
(Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets)
613 West 155th Street
New York, NY 10032

Invited: Everyone

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