Freddy Rodríguez's "Casabe y Cruz II" Acquired by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

"Celebrated for his hard-edged abstract and expressionistic paintings, Freddy Rodríguez (1945–2022) explored Caribbean and Latinx history, often focusing on the Dominican Republic’s Indigenous and colonial past, as well as its history of enslavement, turbulent contemporary events, and the immigration of Dominicans to the United States. The National Gallery of Art has acquired its second work by the artist. Casabe y Cruz II (1991) comes from a larger series created amid mounting celebrations in the United States and around the world to commemorate the 1992 quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’s so-called discovery of the Americas. Casabe y Cruz II examines the spiritual conquest of the Americas and the imposition of European culture and Christianity on Native populations."

-The National Gallery

October 12, 2023