In Stoic Figure, a woman stands before a massive head, whose definitive forms seem to grow from the landscape. The stern expression and heavy brow add to the stoicism of the stone-like head.

In 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, José Antonio Fernández Muro and his family fled Madrid for Argentina, where he began training under celebrated Catalan painter Vicente Puig. Fernández Muro’s individual style took time to evolve; his first decade of painting produced works closely resembling his instructor’s figural, realist images.

The title of this drawing comes from Hesiod’s Theogony, a poem detailing the origins, genealogies, and descendants of the Greek gods, composed around 700 BCE.

A proud member of the Generación de la Ruptura—a group of Mexican artists who sought to rupture, or break away from, the then wildly popular muralism movement—José Luis Cuevas remains staunchly opposed to the expression of political or social themes in art.

Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Russia in 1903, but by 1913 his family had settled in Portland, Oregon. He entered Yale University in 1921 and studied liberal arts, but withdrew in 1923 because he was not sufficiently interested in academic training. By 1925, Rothko had settled in New York and begun to tentatively draw from the model.