Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Journalist Juan Luis Márquez reports that fellow Puerto Ricans José Antonio Torres Martinó, Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño, Julio Rosado del Valle, and Félix Rodríguez Báez have organized the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño (CAP) in order to [...]

Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar writes to Félix Rodriguez Báez, who at the time was the director of the Escuela de Artes Plásticas [School of Visual Arts] of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [ICP, Puerto Rican Cultural Institute], to [...]

Journalist Samuel E. de la Rosa explains that in the late 1950s, the management of the company, Fomento Industrial de Puerto Rico, took the initiative to install prefabricated murals in factories. The purpose of these installations was to awaken [...]

This document is the cover of the magazine, Puerto Rico Ilustrado [Puerto Rico Illustrated], and consists of a photograph of five members of the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño [CAP, Center for Puerto Rican Art]: Samuel Sánchez, Rafael Tufiño, [...]

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 [...]