La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington

About the exhibition

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes presented La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington in Mexico City in 1980–1981. The exhibition presented American paintings from public collections in Washington. Spanish historical titles are retained in the individual object histories. Documented examples include Mark Rothko’s No. 17 (1958; pigmented hide glue, egg, and oil on canvas) and Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s Lady with a Mask (1911; oil on canvas). The reconstructed checklist is partial, and exact opening and closing days remain unverified.

Also recorded as: La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington [Painting in the United States from Public Collections in Washington], Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City