Cándido Portinari

…the 20th century the painter Cândido Portinari was a major proponent of a uniquely Brazilian style, which blended abstract European techniques with realistic portrayals of the people and landscapes of his native land; the painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, a contemporary of Portinari, gained equal international renown. In 1922, seeking to…

In Brazil, Cândido Portinari, who painted simplified scenes of labourers, was given mural commissions such as the 1937 Ministry of Agriculture in Rio de Janeiro and the 1942 entrance lobby of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in which he used monumental…

…21st century, including Coffee by Cândido Portinari and works by Emiliano de Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral. Foreign art is well represented with a series of views of Pernambuco, Brazil, by Frans Post and with examples of European art from the 13th century to the present. The collection also includes…