Oller's Hacienda La Fortuna was painted as Puerto Rico experienced an intense transition at the end of the Spanish-American war.
Art of the Americas
An octopus headdress belongs to an impressive Moche metalworking tradition.
Moche Octopus Headdress
After the Spanish invasions in Mexico, many objects associated with Indigenous religion and knowledge were burned or destroyed.
“Burning of the Idols,” in Diego Muñoz ...
Talavera poblana, the distinct blue-and-white ceramics from Puebla Mexico, have a complex and fascinating history of transpacific and transatlantic connections.
Talavera poblana
Escudos de monjas are an important genre of art made in the viceroyalty of New Spain, one that gives us a glimpse into how nuns fashioned themselves.
Escudos de monjas, or nuns’ badges, in ...
Taking inspiration from European portraits, this painting shows off the wealth of the sitter in colonial Mexico with her elaborate fashion
Miguel de Herrera, Portrait of a Lady
Agostino Brunias's painting depicts some of the racial dynamics in the 18th-century Caribbean.
Agostino Brunias, Free Women of Color with ...
This small painting contains one of the only known depictions of Black, enslaved figures from the Spanish Caribbean during the colonial era (1492–1898).
José Campeche, Exvoto de la Sagrada Familia
As Puerto Rico’s most sought-after painter in the late 18th and early 19th century, José Campeche y Jordán holds an important and singular space in the art history of the Spanish Caribbean.
José Campeche, the portraitist of 18th-century Puerto ...
The well-regarded Puerto Rican artist José Campeche was commissioned by the city of San Juan to commemorate Castro's successful defense of the city from British troops in 1797.
José Campeche y Jordán, Portrait of Governor ...
Indigenous artists in Mexico portrays the first images of Black Africans in the Americas.
Images of Africans in the Codex Telleriano ...
The images that Sarah Mapps Douglass and peers made in friendship albums may be the earliest documented signed art works by African American women.
The Radical Floriography of Sarah Mapps Douglass
This token of private devotion after a near-death experience speaks to how smaller communities in Mexico resourcefully made their own religious images
Cristo de Sacromonte ex-voto
Learn about the story of Fog Woman and Raven and the generations of this totem pole from the Tlingit
The Chief Johnson Totem Pole
One of the most recognized paintings in American history, this painting is an ode to friendship and nature
Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits
In Frances Jones’s Impressionist painting In the Conservatory, a young woman reads in a glass windowed interior full of tropical plants.
Frances Jones (Bannerman), In the Conservatory
These Indigenous men sat for this portrait during a forced tour of U.S. eastern cities after they were incarcerated as political prisoners
John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His ...
Edmonia Lewis, an artist of Black and Indigenous heritage, uses a neoclassical style to depict Indigenous subjects from a popular novel around the time of the U.S. Civil War
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