The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York holds one of the most significant collections of Spanish art outside Spain, comprising some 18,000 artworks that range from the Palaeolithic era to the 20th century. Among these works is a rich body of paintings by Spanish artists including El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo and Zurbarán, as well as works by the Mexican painter Luis Juárez (c. 1585–c. 1638), whose mastery of light and drapery was informed by Flemish Old Masters, and the Bolivian painter Melchor Pérez Holguín (c. 1665–c.1730), posthumously nicknamed ‘the Golden Brush’. This exhibition in Austin brings together 57 works from the Hispanic Society’s collection, focusing on baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries – an era of Spanish colonial expansion during which the Catholic Church and the Spanish court commissioned leading painters to bolster their image (24 August–1 February 2026).
Find out more from the Blanton Museum’s website.
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