In addition to her own work, she developed an interest in pre-Columbian sculpture, which she collected and promoted through lectures.
So are colonial painting and pre-Columbian sculpture.
Two millenniums is a lot of terrain for even a survey cover, and this one moves from pre-Columbian sculpture to contemporary painting.
A tribute to pre-Columbian sculpture involved little more than self-consciously angular poses.
Take, for instance, his ebullient "Pre-Columbus" series of squat, sitting figures inspired by pre-Columbian sculpture.
Small rooms house his exquisite collection of pre-Columbian sculpture.
He later learned, he said, that people would sometimes buy his works, doctor them to appear aged, and then resell them as authentic pre-Columbian sculpture.
But eventually they got into the art market as genuine pre-Columbian sculptures.
The well-articulated work (from 1962) is evocative of pre-Columbian sculpture.
Here, and in a handful of the blue-on-blue paintings, there are hints of pre-Columbian sculptures.