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Rafael Barradas (Uruguay, b.1890, d.1929)
Still Life, 1926-1927
Watercolor on paper, 16 x 12”
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Rafael Barradas was born in Montevideo, and moved to Barcelona in 1913, where he would spend most of his career. He worked as illustrator for the magazine “Alfar”, and with Jorge Luis Borges for “Tableros.” Barradas became a leader of the avant-garde in Spanish painting. by @amamuseum

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Maria Dolores Castellanos (Guatemala, b.1958)
Desatame, 1998
Mixed media on canvas, 65 x 65cm
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Maria Dolores Castellanos was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1958 and has lived and worked in Guatemala City for nearly all of her life. Castellanos attended the School of Applied Arts and Restoration in Madrid, and also received classes with renowned Guatemalan artists such as Manolo Gallardo and Roberto Cabrera. The artist began to produce work most actively in 1989. Her earlier works tended to focus on the female figure. She has become particularly known for her later works, just as spectacular, that use transparent sculptures such as torsos and drops filled with small artifacts. by @amamuseum

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FAMA Members Tour of The Textile Museum’s “Weaving an Empire: Textiles of the Inka World” y Mucho Mas! Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 11 AM - 1 PM.
Register on Eventbrite via the link in our Instagram bio @friendsofama

Includes behind-the-scenes visit to their Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection to see contemporary textile art inspired by ancient Latin American textile arts, Textiles 101 interactive gallery, guided tour of the current exhibition, “Weaving an Empire: Textiles of the Inka World,” with Shelley Burian, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator, and Artisan’s Gallery for some shopping!

This is the first event in a new series for our members called “FAMA Collectors and Connoisseurs,” designed to offer exclusive opportunities to explore the breadth and depth of the arts of the Americas, regardless of your level of expertise!

This is a FAMA members-only event for supporters belonging to the Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas, limited to 25 guests. If you or your guest are not current FAMA members, you may purchase membership in the ticket section (one for each person) of the Eventbrite page.

Visit www.friendsama.org or link in our bio on Instagram @friendsofama for more information about membership privileges, to become a member, to renew your membership, or to check for upcoming events.

The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum is located on GW’s Foggy Bottom campus at 701 21st Street, NW, in Washington, D.C.
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Image Credits (left to right), Courtesy of The Textile Museum:
Man’s tunic (unku), Peru, Late Horizon (1470-1532 CE). The Textile Museum Collection 91.147. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1932.

Installation view from “Weaving an Empire: Textiles of the Inka World.” Photo by Pulok Pramanik/the George Washington University.

James Bassler (American b.1933), Boxed Blocks, detail (2004), Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection.

#inkatextiles #inca #weaving #dcartscene @peruintheusa @amamuseum @adrianaoospina @sandruli1971 @alejandro.bilbaolavieja @shantaesaintclair @andost80 @veilsofteeth by @amamuseum

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Book your tickets at: https://dupontunderground.org/calendar/skinofdiscomfort taken in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. by @amamuseum

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Teresa Icaza (Panama, b.1940, d. 2010)
Templo de Oro, 1992
Oil and collage on canvas, 50 x 50"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Teresa Icaza studied under Panamanian artists Antonio Alvarado and Mario Calvit, who became his friends and mentors. She produced abstract paintings with textures and collages, key elements of her artistic style. In 1973, at the Panamanian Institute of Art, she held her first individual exhibition, consisting of 22 pieces in an abstract lyrical style. During five decades of work, she presented more than forty solo exhibitions and participated in more than sixty group exhibitions, in Panama and internationally. Her pieces are part of collections such as the AMA, and in Panama, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Bank of Paris, and the Exterior Bank and the National Institute of Culture by @amamuseum

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Alberto Dutary (Panama, b.1932, d.1998)
Pareja (Couple), circa 1960
Oil on canvas, 33 x 55"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection
Gift of Mrs. Lillian R. Kessler

Alberto Dutary was born in Panamá and attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in 1950-1952. In 1953 he continued his studies at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas de Madrid, where he held his first solo exhibition before returning to Panama. While in Madrid he was affected by the Spanish informalist movement, in particular the work of painters Manolo Millares and Antonio Saura, as well as by De Kooning’s Women series and the art brut of Jean Dubuffet. He began to incorporate a variety of materials – cloth, gauze, sawdust – into his compositions; however, his concern was not with pictorial surface in itself, but rather with the representation of the figure in a post-atomic world devoid of meaning. Existentialist literature informs his paintings, drawings, and prints of the years 1957-1969. During these years Dutary referred to his figures as santos – grotesque faces, misshapen limbs, and scarred bodies. In 1961 José Gómez Sicre invited him to have a solo exhibition at the OAS gallery in Washington, D.C. The following year, in 1962, together with Guillermo Trujillo and others, he founded the Instituto Panameño de Arte and received the First Prize in Painting at the Central American Biennial in San Salvador, El Salvador. Dutary was active as a teacher of both art and art history, teaching in a variety of schools such as City University of New York (1971) and the Universidad Nacional de Panamá starting in 1973. In 1970 Dutary abandoned his gestural, neo-figurative style in favor of a more contained, ascetic style charged with surrealist elements. His canvases, pastels, and prints became peopled with tall, thin women, female mannequins, and still-life elements, as well as tense yet detached eroticism. In 1973 he illustrated Jean Genet’s Diary of a Thief with a set of powerful lithographs. Dutary died in Panamá City in 1998. by @amamuseum

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Amazing moments...
Next tours comibg soon:
October 1 from 2-5 pm
October 2 from 2-5 pm
October 3 at 2 pm taken in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. by @amamuseum

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Roser Muntañola (Panama, b.1928)
Children's Games, 1960
Oil on canvas, 32 x 44"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection by @amamuseum

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Leonardo Barreto (Nicaragua)
Santo Domingo en Managua, 1984
Photograph, 9 x 13" (image)
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection by @amamuseum

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Humberto Pasos (Nicaragua, b.1933)
El Nido de las Posibilidades Nocturnas (The Nest of Nocturnal Possibilities), 1978
Etching with intaglio, 21 7/8 x 29 3/4" (sheet)
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection
Gift of Carton y Papel by @amamuseum

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Omar d’ Leon (Nicaragua, b.1929, d. 2022)
Untitled, 1978
Pen and ink on paper, 18 x 24”
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the America Collection

Omar d’ Leon studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Nicaragua under his mentor Rodrigo Peñalba who introduced European Impressionistic painting and magical realism qualities into Nicaraguan art. He founded a museum in Managua in 1970 named Museo-Galeria 904 which showcased art of Nicaragua from pre-Hispanic to contemporary. His early works were inspired by the cross-hatching technique of the frescoes of Pompeii. Omar’s unique style infuses multiple layers of paint, oil, wax and scoring in a cross-hatching pattern that creates an illusion similar to pointillism. This process of layering is done with precision as the artist places layers of opposite dark, cool and warm colors as well as pigments with transparent and opaque qualities. The artist uses a knife like a paint brush, creating scores at different angles and pressure which controls the amount of light that is reflected and creates the illusion of a three-dimensional quality in his works. Omar’s love for his country and its people are reflected in sensuous fluid forms.
-FOTM by @amamuseum

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Humberto Jaimes Sanchez (Venezuela, b.1930, d. 2003)
Organica, 1958
Oil on canvas, 42 x 50”
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Humberto Jaimes Sánchez (b. June 25, 1930, San Cristóbal, Táchira state; d. June 18, 2003, Caracas) was a Venezuelan painter, engraver, designer and teacher. taken in Art Museum of the Americas by @amamuseum

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