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The Museum of Modern Art
1940 · Lithograph, printed from two zinc plates (black and gray)
Comp. 13 1/4 x 9 7/16" (33.7 x 24.0 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Luis Quintanilla
Artist
RealismSocial Realism
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
8
Assets Indexed
0
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Publications Referenced
80%
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- • Realism
- • Social Realism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
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New Acquisitions: Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, European and American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942–1943
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PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940
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Luis Quintanilla: An Exhibition of Drawings of the War in Spain
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
About
Why this artist matters now
Luis Quintanilla was a Spanish painter and printmaker whose work bridged social realism and modernist formal experiment across oils, watercolors, and lithography. Active from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, his practice engaged Spanish cultural tradition alongside avant-garde aesthetics, developing a visual language that resisted easy categorization. His career spanned eight decades of stylistic evolution and political commitment.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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