Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil | MoMA

Exhibition. Feb 11–Jun 3, 2018. “I want to be the painter of my country,” wrote Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) in 1923. Born at the end of the 19th century to a family of coffee plantation owners in São Paulo, Tarsila―as she is affectionately known in Brazil―studied piano, sculpture, and drawing bef…