Presenting “Pedro Figari”

With Lyneise Williams, Associate Professor, Emerita, Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Working in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Paris, France, Pedro Figari (1861 – 1938) painted lively folk scenes of dancing and socializing that shape our perception of Blackness in Uruguay. They are also revealing of the maker himself and of how he — as a first-generation Uruguayan of Italian descent — navigated the highly stratified social dynamics of Montevideo. 

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment). Co-Sponsored by the UF Center for Latin American Studies.