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Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists' Landscapes of Latin America From the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - October 02, 2015) - Americas Society and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to announce the opening on October 30 of Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists' Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, a selection of rarely seen paintings, works on paper, photographs, and books that describe the beauty and complexity of life in Mexico, Central, and South America in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. A press preview will be held at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College and at the Americas Society Art Gallery in New York City on Wednesday, October 28 at 5:00 p.m. R.S.V.P.: mediarelations@as-coa.org.

The exhibition is curated by Dr. Harper Montgomery, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Latin American Art at Hunter College, and students from her master's course, Curatorial Practicum: Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Latin American Landscape. Boundless Reality features more than 150 works by artists from Europe, the United States, and Latin America, ranging from 1638 to 1887. It will be shown simultaneously at the Americas Society Art Gallery and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College through January 23, 2016.

Boundless Reality is the culmination of a multiyear collaborative effort between Hunter College, The Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY), Americas Society, and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC). The exhibition is a selection of major works from the collection Traveler Artists to Latin America, which Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros began in 1997. The works span three and a half centuries of Latin American landscape art, from the arrival of Dutch Colonial artist Frans Post to Brazil, and continuing with the visits of numerous traveling artists from Europe and the United States. By the late nineteenth century native-born artists were adopting landscape painting as the language of the new republics, forging a new sense of national identity.

"When my wife Patty and I began collecting landscapes of Latin America by traveler artists to and within the region, we recognized that the images they recorded represented a way to perceive a world whose boundaries transcended political borders. They further provided an understanding of Latin America as a network of interconnected ideas, traditions, and fruitful exchange," said Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Co-founder Gustavo Cisneros. "The responsibility of the collector to preserve the heritage of artworks involves more than the crucial work of caring for them physically. It involves giving them new avenues of correspondence with other works of art and other traditions, and creating new scholarship that reveals previously unseen connections and discovers new facts. Patty and I are especially proud of the students whose research and curatorial work contributed to this exhibition. Their work has added important gains to the intellectual preservation that will allow these works to live for a new generation, who will no doubt discover in them national identities with more in common than previously imagined."

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