San Diego, California.- The San Diego Museum of Art is pleased to host the exhibition “Mexican Modern Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection”, on view through February 19th 2012. With the collection’s tremendous selection of modern art by many of Mexico’s most noted painters, the Andrés Blaisten Collection is one of the premiere collections of twentieth-century Mexican art. Visitors to the Museum will experience a selection of 80 paintings dated between 1907 and 1956, including those from María Izquierdo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo, which offer a diverse representation of Mexican modernism.This exhibition was organized by the Phoenix Art Museum and The San Diego Museum of Art in cooperation with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. Additional curatorial support for the exhibition’s presentation in San Diego has been provided by Amy Galpin, Project Curator, and Julia Marciari-Alexander, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at The San Diego Museum of Art.