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.
Latin Culture at Hispanic Society
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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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.
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.