Group exhibition
Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles
How Los Angeles dealer Earl Stendahl turned from modern painting to selling ancient Mexican art, and what that cost archaeological sites.
Around 1940 Stendahl Art Galleries began promoting pre-Hispanic antiquities to museums and private collectors, staging exhibitions in the US and Europe and placing objects in Hollywood advertising. Drawn from the gallery’s archive at the Getty Research Institute, the show includes photographs such as Man Ray’s picture of the actress Teresa Wright with a Chac Mool, and weighs the damage done to sites in Mexico.
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