Images of Faith: Religious Art of Mexico 18th & 19th Century
March 27 – May 13, 1987
(Detail) La Santísima Trinidad by Joseph de Paez, 1759, oil on copper / óleo sobre cobre, National Museum of Mexican Art Permanent Collection, 2009.96, Gift of the Koenig Family Trust in memory of Robert W. and Mary Ellen Koenig
This inaugural exhibition of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in the Pilsen neighborhood featured religious art of Mexico from the 18th and 19th Centuries. The rich, traditional, and artistic expressions of faith and beliefs of the Mexican People were presented in the culmination of work by many anonymous artists.
