From Lima to Canton and Beyond: The Ethnographic Art of Pancho Fierro and His Contemporaries
Symposium

“Pancho” Fierro (Francisco Fierro Palas, Peruvian, 1807/09–1879), Holy Week Procession on the Calle de San Agustín, Lima (detail), 1830s, watercolor on paper, 44.5 × 475 cm, The Hispanic Society of America, New York (A1585)
This symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter organized by the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.
A panel of international speakers reports on the scientific study of Peruvian Costumbrista watercolors sponsored by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Their presentations describe the work of the ISAAC Lab of Nottingham Trent University in collaboration with the Hispanic Society Museum & Library and the museums, libraries, universities, and research institutes holding examples of these works and related objects, including the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection of 48 nineteenth-century watercolors attributed to Pancho Fierro, Francisco Javier Cortés, and others.
This event is offered in collaboration with the Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA).
The symposium is free and open to all but prior registration is required.