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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Cardboard
Year: 1942
1942.17
The Port
Alternate title: Arte constructiva
1942
Oil on cardboard
31 3/8 x 39 7/8 in. (79.7 x 101.3 cm)
Signed lower left: J.Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 42
Provenance
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibitions
1943 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Latin American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, March 31–June 6, 1943.
1949 Museo Nacional de Bogotá
Museo Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia, 32 artistas de las Américas: exposición organizada por la Unión Panamericana Bogota, February 7–17, 1949, no. 29.
2019 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, March 17–June 15, 2019, no. 208, ill., p. 169, as The Port.
Published References
Payró 1942
Payró, Julio. "Presentación de JTG." Boletín de la Cátedra de investigación y de orientación artisticas año 1, no. 5 (December 1942), ill.
Kirstein 1943
Kirstein, Lincoln. The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1943, ill. p. 86.
Ver y Estimar 1949
"Joaquín Torres-García: Homenaje de Ver y Estimar." Ver y Estimar (Buenos Aires) vol. IV, no. 11 and 12 (June 1949), ill.
de Torre 1950
de Torre, Guilldermo. "Valoración de Torres - García." Clima: Cuadernos de Arte (Montevideo) año 1, no. 2-3 (October-December 1950), ill. p. 5, as Arte constructiva.
Romera 1970
Romera, Antonio R. "Las Artes Plásticas en América Latina." El Mercurio, March 19, 1970, ill.
Museum of Modern Art 2015
Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 49, fig. 21.
Record last updated May 15, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "The Port, 1942 (1942.17)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1761 (accessed on March 29, 2024).