Object Details
- Artist
- Myrna Báez, born Santurce, Puerto Rico 1931-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 2018
- Exhibition Label
- Báez focused her gaze on a lush field of plantain trees, a crop long wedded to concepts of Puerto Rican identity and sovereignty. She depicted the crop’s large leaves as they reflect the tropical sun and delighted in her manipulation of paint on unprimed canvas. Báez’s belief in Puerto Rican independence manifests in her impulse to look, depict, and therefore possess the island’s landscape on her own terms.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jaime Fonalledas
- 1974
- Object number
- 2013.21
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 x 35 in. (114.3 x 88.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2013.21
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7d53dd985-fe4c-45f0-a3d2-396bac6b1871
