Call for Thoma Latin American Art Scholars

Image is of the painting entitled The Child Mary Spinning, from the Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma. In this devotional painting, the Virgin Mary is depicted as a luxuriously dressed young girl spinning wool into thread in the Temple of Jerusalem.

In collaboration With the Thoma Foundation and the Blanton Museum of Art, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections is pleased to announce a call/ call for proposals for the grants Thoma for Research in Virreinal Arte Latinoamericano (Thoma Visiting Scholars in Spanish Colonial Art). The Scholarships Thoma will fund short-term visits for six scholars to conduct research on South American colonial art based on a long-term loan to the Blanton by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation. Researchers will have access to over thirty works now at the Blanton as well as the extensive resources of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, one of the premier libraries in the world focused on colonial Latin American materials.

More information at Tex Libris.