The Blanton's unsurpassed collection of Latin American art includes works by many artists not represented elsewhere in U.S. collections, with particular strengths in Mexican graphics of the early 20th century, and post-1970 paintings and drawings from South America.
Specific concentrations include: The School of the South (Joaquín Torres García, Francisco Matto, Julio Alpuy, Gonzalo Fonseca); New Figuration (Luis Felipe Noé, Rómulo Macció, Jorge de la Vega, Antonio Seguí); Political Conceptualism (Luis Camnitzer, Eugenio Dittborn, Gonzalo Diaz, Cildo Meireles); and Emerging artists (Jorge Macchi, Yoshua Okon, Diego Gravinese).
Recent acquisitions of Argentinean and Brazilian Conceptual art include a work by Victor Grippo, and a 1985 sculpture by Waltercio Caldas. Works by Abel Barroso, Flavio Garciandia, Jose A Toirac, Antonio Elgio Fernandez (Tonel), and Fernando Rodriguez represent a new significant collection of contemporary artwork from Cuba. The Blanton's holdings also consist of a growing concentration in Argentinean art of the 1990s.
