ANTI-WILSONIANS

Wilson’s critiques on Latin-American art consistently lack the sensitivity and scholarship which great painters like Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera deserve.

As a collector who owns Latin-American paintings which have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Canada, and the Pompidou Center in Paris, I know that art lovers throughout the world have a real appreciation for modern masters from Latin America.

Given our proximity to Mexico, it’s rather ironic to have to travel to the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery in Berlin, or the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo to see an exhibition of Latin-American painters.

Why don’t the Los Angeles critics and museums wake up to what the rest of the world already recognizes: Latin America has produced some of the most important figures in 20th-Century painting.

J. L. SHEEHY

San Marino