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Initially an important artist in the Argentine surrealist movement, Juan Batlle Planas shifted his focus to abstraction during the 1950s. He brought to this new mode the same interest in delicate and unique color balances that characterizes most of…

In the mid-1950s, Edwin Ruda’s weekly road trip between El Paso, where his fiancée lived, and Austin, where he taught at the University of Texas, inspired him to create paintings that simulated the experience of moving through the landscape. The…