Spanish Painter Joaquín Sorolla
August 20, 2009
Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla captured the Mediterranean light better perhaps than any Impressionist painter. His native Valencia was his source of inspiration for his paintings of fishermen, children and horses on the beach. He was also a portrait painter in Spain and in the U.S.
Sorolla is little known in the U.S. despite the large number of his works commissioned by Archer Milton Huttington of the Hispanic Society in New York in the early part of the 20th century. The large body of Sorolla’s paintings and sculptures are found both in New York at the Hipanic Society and in Madrid at the Museo Sorolla, housed in his family’s Madrid residence–a beautiful villa style house worth visiting in itself.
See this brief WSJ article on Sorolla and the exhibition in Madrid closing, unfortunately, on September 6.
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