Mark A. Roglán Award to ARTES Chair
ARTES is extremely proud to announce that on 18 October the Meadows Museum’s Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture, Dallas, presented its Mark A. Roglán Publication Award for the second time to Claudia Hopkins, Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, for her book Art and Identity in Spain 1833-1956. The Orient Within (Bloomsbury, 2024). She delivered a talk entitled ‘Nostalgia for al-Andalus from Bécquer to Rusiñol’ in the museum’s Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium. The program concluded with Custard Institute’s director Greg Warden presenting Hopkins the second Mark A. Roglán Award.
The award recognizes exemplary scholarship on Spanish art between 1820 and 1920 and is named for the late director of the Meadows Museum, Mark A. Roglán, an eminent museum professional and art historian whose field of specialisation was Spanish art of the modern period and its collecting history.
Colnaghi Casta Paintings at Frieze Masters 2025, London (Post)
One of the favourites from the collection was a set of Mexican School Casta Paintings, a rare group of eight canvases from eighteenth-century New Spain. These works belong to a pictorial tradition that sought to classify the colony’s mixed society through images of race, family, and occupation. Each painting shows a man, woman, and child of defined ancestry, identified by their assigned casta such as Mestizo, Mulato, Castiza, or Tente en el aire. Both decorative and documentary, the series translates colonial hierarchies into scenes of domestic order. The Colnaghi group is notable for its scroll-mounted format, which allowed the paintings to be rolled for travel, and for its detailed depictions of clothing, trade, and local produce.
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