Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this letter, José Antonio Torres Martinó tells Lorenzo Homar that the Mexican artist Alberto Beltrán greatly enjoyed the book that Homar had sent him, and would like to publish it in El Gallo Ilustrado, the supplement put out by El Día (a left [...]

The Puerto Rican artist and critic José A. Torres Martinó writes to Lorenzo Homar to tell him that he will try to raise the necessary fundsto meet him in Europe. Torres Martinó then continues bringing Homar up to date on what their colleagues [...]

The Puerto Rican artist and critic José A. Torres Martinó writes to Lorenzo Homar to describe the technique that was used to remove the tiles of the mural installed in the pool area of El Escambrón (the project was undertaken in 1966), and how [...]

The Puerto Rican artist and critic José A. Torres Martinó writes to Lorenzo Homar to tell him that he will soon be reinstalling the mural tiles that were originally installed in 1966 in the recreation area at El Escambrón. Torres Martinó refers [...]

In this text, Puerto Rican critic and artist José Antonio Torres Martinó asserts that despite the range of themes in Antonio Martorell’s graphic work, it actually revolves around a single and deeply felt concern with sociopolitical issues. To [...]

Puerto Rican artist and essayist José A. Torres Martinó offers an account of artists working on the island from the 1940s through the 1960s. He speaks of the importance of the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño (CAP); the División de Educación de la [...]

In this historical overview, artist José A. Torres Martinó describes how he and fellow Puerto Rican artist Félix Rodríguez Báez opened a studio called Estudio 17 in the late-1940s. Other artists joined their efforts and together they founded the [...]

In this essay [written in 1996], Puerto Rican artist and critic José A. Torres Martinó, talks about the work of Elizam Escobar, who was chosen to illustrate a publication called Periolibros. The writer believes the exposure and dissemination that [...]

Puerto Rican artist and critic José Antonio Torres Martinó (Ponce, Puerto Rico, born 1916) provides a brief analysis of the work of Puerto Rican artist Marta Pérez García on the occasion of her exhibition of prints at the Galería Botello in 1996 [...]

Puerto Rican critic and artist José Antonio Torres Martinó discusses the works by Myrna Báez exhibited at the Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico in 1976. He states that though Báez makes use of North American neorealism, she distances herself [...]