Catalog

“Connecting artists with international audiences at their moment of emergence, it became the first collection to document and define a modern and contemporary artistic canon in the region.“- Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States

Presenting the cultural legacy of the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) with its collection of some 2,000 works was a timely and multi-year endeavor that resulted in print and digital  publications, supported by FAMA, among other major donors.

Print Catalog

Art of the Americas: Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States highlights 100 key works in the OAS AMA art collection, representing fundamental artistic trends that have developed in Latin America, including new figuration, geometric and lyrical abstraction, conceptual art, optical and kinetic art.

Artists such as Fanny Sanín, Maria Luisa Pacheco, Marta Minujín, Inés Córdova, Elsa Gramcko, Olga Donde, Muriel Hasbun, Amelia Pelaez, Celeste Woss y Gil, Cundo Bermúdez, Fernando de Szyszlo, Agustín Fernández, José Luís Cuevas, Alejandro Obregón, Raquél Forner, Rodolfo Abularach, Alfredo Da Silva, Ernesto Deira, and Jorge de la Vega held early-career exhibitions in the United States in the Gallery of the Pan American Union and later the present-day AMA, which opened in 1976. The museum has provided valuable support throughout the years in the expansion of the academic field of modern and contemporary art of Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States. 

The stunning catalog, available for purchase, features three long-form essays by scholars on topics central to the exploration of the history of the OAS AMA art program, as well as entries on each of the 100 artworks, and biographies for each artist. There is a series of richly detailed color images for each work of art.

Digital Catalog

Discover and explore one-hundred color images online, along with all the assets of the print catalog, described above, thanks to the support of Univision.