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Hispanic Society Has the Most Important Hispanic Art and Rare Books Collection Outside of Spain


Hispanic Society Museum and Library is a research library and art museum in Washington Heights, Manhattan, that holds the most important collection of Hispanic art and rare books outside of Spain.

The Museum collects classical art of Spain, Portugal, Latin American and the Philippines.

It is famous for its masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, and Velázquez. It has an entire room of large-scale Sorolla paintings.

Most New Yorkers don’t know about it, but when parts of the collection were exhibited in Madrid, people lined up around the block to see it.


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Mano a Mano NYC Day of the Dead Celebration (Juan Aguirre)

Day of the Dead, Día de Muertos, Comes to Life at Mano y Mano’s Community Altars

HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇲🇽
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Dominican Yorks, MiNacimiento (Ma Naissance) detail, Reynaldo García Pantaleón, 2023 (Alfonso Lozano/Hispanic Society)

Dominican Yorks is a New York Dominican Art Exhibit in Conversation with the Collection at Hispanic Society

HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan

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Music and Dance in the time of the Duchess of Alba ~ Rupert Boyd, the Duchess of Alba, Anna Tonna & Anna de la Paz

Anna Tonna

December 4, 2012
HISPANIC SOCIETY
Washington Heights, NYC
The opera singer sang Spanish boleros for the Duchess of Alba (Goya) a lady of Spain, who watched coyly without saying a word
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New York Dominican Art

Dominican Yorks is an art exhibition of work by three New York Dominican artists: Reynaldo Garcia Pantaleón, Chiqui Mendoza, and Rider Ureña, in conversation with the museum’s collection; at Hispanic Society in Washington Heights, Manhattan; from February 23 to June 30, 2024. Free. hispanicsociety.org 🇩🇴


Hispanic Society Tickets


Hispanic Society (Antoine Bootz/Hispanic Society)
Hispanic Society (Antoine Bootz/Hispanic Society)

Hispanic Society Museum and Library
613 West 155th St
Broadway (between 155th & 156th St)
Washington Heights, Manhattan

Subways
(1) to 157th St. Walk two blocks.

The museum is free.

hispanicsociety.org

Past Artists


Anna Tona is a Maltese opera singer who channelled the Duchess of Alba for a Hispanic Society performance.


About Hispanic Society


The Society was founded in 1904 by Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), who traveled extensively in Europe as a child. His branch of the Huntington family made their money building California railroads.

Huntington met Spanish impressionist Joaquin Sorolla in England, and invited him to exhibit in New York City. After he commissioned Sorolla to paint 14 murals now known as “Vision of Spain.” The Sorolla room holding the murals is an incredible space.

If you’re from the coast of California or Spain, you will feel at home in the Sorolla room because his light, that Mediterranean light, is the light of home.

There are priceless old maps including a couple by Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), for whom the Americas are named.

The Prado in Madrid, Spain’s most important art museum, says the Hispanic Society collection is more complete than theirs.


Published February 23, 2024 ~ Updated February 23, 2024.

Filed Under: Dominican News, Latin Books News, NYC Art Museums, Spanish News

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