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Why was this fêted Mexican painter left out of the canon?

It’s to the National Gallery’s great credit that it’s championing Jose Maria Velasco, a little-known polymath whose quietly complex paintings encapsulate his native land

Joanna Moorhead
‘The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel’, 1877, by Jose Maria Velasco © REPRODUCCIÓN AUTORIZADA POR EL INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES Y LITERATURA. PHOTO: FRANCISCO KOCHEN
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