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Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida amazing artworks... |
The
Hispanic Society of America is a museum of
Spanish,
Portuguese, and
Latin American art and artifacts, as well as a rare books and manuscripts research library. Founded in 1904 by
Archer M. Huntington, the institution is free and open to the public at its original location in a
Beaux Arts building on
Audubon Terrace (at
155th Street and
Broadway) in the lower
Washington Heights area of
New York City in the
United States.
Exterior sculpture at the Society includes work by
Anna Hyatt Huntington and nine major reliefs by the Swiss-American sculptor
Berthold Nebel, a commission that took ten years to complete.