Resumen de Un museo de arte en Puerto Rico, 1898-1902. Iniciativa de Oller en tiempos de borrasca política
- español
En la historia del arte puertorriqueño Francisco Oller es el pintor más importante y el de mayor trascendencia internacional. En este artículo se pone de relieve otro aspecto de su vida menos conocido: su iniciativa de fundar un museo de arte en Puerto Rico. Aunque las repetidas gestiones realizadas de 1898 a 1902, fueron mayormente recibidas con indiferencia e incluso, a veces, con el menosprecio de las más altas autoridades oficiales, ellas sembraron la semilla de un proyecto cultural que solo llegará a desarrollarse a mediados del siglo veinte.
- English
In the history of Puerto Rican art Francisco Oller is the most important painter and the one with greater international recognition as well. In this paper a less well-known aspect of his life is brought into focus: his endeavor to establish an art museum in Puerto Rico. Even though his repeated proposals from 1898 to 1902 were mostly received with indifference and even, at times, with contempt by the highest official authorities, they planted the seed of a cultural project that would develop only around the middle of the twentieth century.
