We embrace the breadth of Joaquín Sorolla’s oeuvre and his global reach in the Vision of Spain gallery at the Hispanic Society in New York. The monumental series of 14 paintings known as Vision of Spain spans nearly 12-feet tall and 200-feet long and shares a rich narrative of the peoples, traditions, costumes, and customs throughout Spain.
By the time Archer Milton Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society, commissioned the paintings in 1911 for a new gallery on the west side of the main building, Sorolla was well known in the United States following wildly successful traveling exhibitions organized by the society in 1909 and 1911. The 14 canvases were restored in 2006 and 2007 to prepare for exhibition in Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Bilbao, Barcelona, and Madrid between November 2007 and February 2010.
Now that reach is extending some 1,200 miles south to “Florida’s Cultural Capital”, The Palm Beaches, to celebrate the destination’s Spanish heritage with a series of events and exhibitions through next year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the city of Boca Raton…