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The Sugar Mill
The Sugar Mill

The Sugar Mill

Artist Armando Morales (Nicaraguan, 1927 - 2011)
DepartmentLatin American Art
Date1991
Dimensionsunframed: 51 1/4 × 64 in. (130.2 × 162.6 cm)
framed: 62 3/4 × 75 1/8 × 2 in. (159.4 × 190.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art
Object number2006.13
Geography
Place madeNicaragua
General regionNorth and Central America
DescriptionA landscape painting set in a lush temperate rainforest. A simple sugar mill appears in the foreground. A field of plants that appear to be sugar cane appear on the right-hand side of the painting.Label TextProvenanceGalerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL
Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, NY
Exhibition HistoryParis, FIAC, Armando Morales Peintures, Galerie Claude Bernard, October 13-November 1, 1992, no. 1 illustrated in colorSignedSigned, proper lower left
Not on view
San Antonio Museum of Art, Anonymous donation.
Armando Morales
1993
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by The Brown Foundation.
Derek Boshier
1987
San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase.
Francisco Morales
19th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Alex Schmeltzer and Lisa Rotmil.
Kirk Hayes
2015
Purchased with funds provided by National Endowment for the Arts and The Brown Foundation. The …
Richard Diebenkorn
1972
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of The Sheerin Family in Honor of the Artist.
Mark Flood
2011
Wedgwood
Culture: English
19th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Lillie and Roy Cullen Endowment Fund.
Joaquín Castañón
1866
Purchased with funds provided by the John and Karen McFarlin Fund.
Mel Casas
1969
Gift of Mrs. Helen Haseltine Plowden.
William Stanley Haseltine
1870
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Joe White Nicholson Collection.
20th century

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