Artist
Armando Salas Portugal(Mexican, 1916–1995)Mexican, 1916–1995
CultureMexican
Titles
- Uxmal, Yucatan
- from the series Los Antiguos Reinos de México
Date1962, printed 1962
MediumGelatin silver print with applied color
DimensionsImage: 19 5/8 × 23 1/8 in. (49.9 × 58.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 1/8 in. (49.9 × 58.8 cm)
Mount: 21 1/4 × 25 3/16 in. (54 × 64 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 1/8 in. (49.9 × 58.8 cm)
Mount: 21 1/4 × 25 3/16 in. (54 × 64 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2023 and Joan Morgenstern
Object number2022.473
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Armando Salas Portugal photographed the landscape of his native country, from its deserts to its forests and volcanos (he was an avid mountaineer), and its architecture, from Mayan ruins to the modernist constructions of Luis Barragán. In this surprisingly large and delicately hand-colored view of the so-called Nunnery at Uxmal, Salas Portugal imbues his picture with a Romantic sense of lost civilization. Far from mere documentation, the picture is framed from a low vantage point, with the Mayan structures seen below a stormy sky.
ProvenanceFundación Armando Salas Portugal, Mexico City; [Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, recto, bottom right over image: A Salas Portugal
Signed in black ink, recto, bottom right over image: A Salas Portugal
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