AFA 20th Anniversary

20th Anniversary 86 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com THE WINTER SHOW LOAN EXHIBITION T he Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, is the only institution in the world with collections that span over f ou r t hou s a nd ye a r s of t he a r t s , literature, and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. Artifacts dating from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century from Latin America and the Philippines are also represented. Exceptional examples from the collections are included in Unrivaled , the loan exhibition at the Winter Show 2020, curated by Philippe de Montebello and Peter Marino. The forty-nine objects in the exhibition include paintings and sculpture by the great Spanish masters; decorative arts from Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines; photographs from Chile and the Philippines; Spanish medieval manuscripts; along with manuscript charts and maps of the Mediterranean, North America, and Peru. The Hispanic Society embodies the vision of Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955), a native New Yorker, who from his youth dreamed of founding a museum and library centered on the countries of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking peoples (Fig. 1). Archer Huntington was the only child of the railroad and shipping magnate Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900), and Arabella Duvall Huntington (1850–1924). Following the death of her husband, Arabella Huntington formed one of the Left  Fig. 1: José María López Mezquita (1883–1884), Archer Milton Huntington , 1926. Oil on canvas, 92½ x 42⅛ inches. Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York (A3071). Right  Fig. 2: Exterior of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library on Audubon Terrace in Upper Manhattan. UNRIVALED Hispanic Society Museum& Library byMitchell A. Codding