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Transpacific Crossings: Art, Trade, and the Manila Galleon

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez, Karina H. Corrigan, and Kathryn Santner

2026
Digital and Print
Eleven scholars present current research on how the vast exchange of materials, techniques, and ideas between continents impacted the trajectory of art and material culture across the Pacific.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes

Raphael Fonseca

2024
Softcover
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra reimagines the world and deconstructs societal and cultural norms through her playful and surrealistic artworks.
Neocolonial: Inventing Modern Latin American Nations

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez and Lynda Klich

2024
Softcover
In essays about countries such as Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Venezuela over more than a half century, Neocolonial: Inventing Modern Latin American Nations presents the ways that artists, architects, and designers adapted to political and aesthetic realities so as to create a renewed visual identity.
Appropriation and Invention: Three Centuries of Art in Spanish America

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

2022
Hardcover
A bilingual guide to the Denver Art Museum’s permanent collection of Latin American art, covering masterpieces from three centuries of art in Spanish America.
Who tells a tail adds a tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art

Edited by Raphael Fonseca

2022
Softcover
This bilingual catalog accompanies an exhibition featuring nineteen contemporary Latin American and Latinx artists born in the millennial generation between 1981 and 1996.
Materiality: Making Spanish America

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

2020
Softcover
This volume collects the work of nine scholars who shared their research at the eighteenth annual symposium in 2018.
Circulación: Movement of Ideas, Art, and People in Spanish America: Mayer Center Symposium XVI

Edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

2018
Softcover
In October 2016, the Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art held its sixteenth annual symposium at the Denver Art Museum.
New England/New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492–1850, Papers from the 2014 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

Edited by Donna Pierce

2016
Softcover
This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the symposium on recent research on portraiture in the Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico) and the British colonies of North America.
Companion to Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum

Donna Pierce and Julie Wilson Frick

2015
Softcover
This companion guide accompanied Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum, an exhibition in the museum’s Spanish colonial galleries.
Festivals & Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America: Papers from the 2012 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

Edited by Donna Pierce

2014
Softcover
This well-illustrated volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the Festivals & Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America symposium.
At the Crossroads: The Arts of Spanish America & Early Global Trade, 1492–1850, Papers from the 2010 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Y. Otsuka

2012
Softcover
This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at a symposium examining the impact of early modern globalization on the arts of Spanish America.
Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum

Donna Pierce

2011
Softcover
This lavishly illustrated volume serves as a primer to the Spanish Colonial collection, framing it within the historical context of the early modern world and the first era of global trade.