Artistic Wonders Revealed

More than eight years of researching and interviewing historians, museum directors, artists, collectors and gallery owners have paid off for co-authors Suzanne Brooks Snider and Mark Morgan Ford with the release of their book “Central American Modernism / Modernismo en Centroamérica,” a comprehensive anthology of Central American Art.

“‘Central American Modernism / Modernismo en Centroamérica’ is a bilingual beau-livre. It not only tells the story of how Modernism came to each country, but it also demonstrates — with hundreds of photographs — the magnitude of the talent that Central America contributed to Modernism,” states the book’s website.

Elegantly illustrating the artwork of influential artists of the 20th century through visual resources never seen before, the book tells how Modernism made it to the six Central American countries and what each of them gave back to the genre. Some of the artists studied in the book are Roberto Cabrera and Elmar Rojas from Guatemala, Carlos Cañas and Rosa Mena Valenzuela from El Salvador, Moisés Becerra and Dante Lazzaroni from Honduras, Armando Morales and Fernando Saaravia from Nicaragua, José Sancho and Teodorico Quirós from Costa Rica and Guillermo Trujillo and Alfredo Sinclair from Panama.

To delve deeper into the book and explore the author’s discoveries, head to Delray Beach’s Cornell Museum on March 21 at 6 p.m. and join co-author Snider for a book talk and signing, accompanied by the inaugural exhibit of Central American Modernist Art, expected to be on display until July. As part of the book release, Antonia Canas, daughter of renowned Salvadorian painter and architect B. Canas, will be available to meet and greet on April 5 from 6-8 p.m. at the Cornell Museum.

For more information about “Central American Modernism / Modernismo en Centroamérica,” visit centralamericanmodernism.com.