Museo Carmen Thyssen

Imogen Cunningham. Essences

The American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born in Portland, Oregon, into a humble farming family. Her father Isaac Cunningham, a freethinker and voracious reader, instilled a love of art and nature in Imogen, the eldest of six siblings.

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Luis Feito. Painting Itself. From the Artist’s Collection (1956-1962)

Comprising nine works by the painter Luis Feito (1929-2021) produced between 1956 and 1962, this exhibition focuses on a particularly decisive period, both in his individual creative career and in the opening up of Spanish art to a new avant-garde in which abstraction introduced a radical break w...

Latent Modernity

Through more than sixty paintings, mostly from the Telefónica Collection, this exhibition tells the story of an episode in Spanish art that was largely shaped by the historical period to which it belongs. The hopes aroused by the signs of an emerging avant-garde before the Civil War (1936ꟷ...