ABSTRACT
The decade of the 1950s would go a long way to fulfilling Emilio Sanchez's desire of traveling further throughout the Caribbean, establishing himself as a recognized artist internationally—not just in New York—and perhaps more than anything, gaining artistic respect at home in Cuba. As he was approaching his 30th birthday, Emilio Sanchez had his second solo exhibition at the Ferargil Galleries that dealt primarily in American contemporary art on East Fifty-Seventh Street in New York City from May 7 to May 19. Like the Ferargil exhibition that focused on Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba, this time 42 watercolors were exhibited, including many of the works previously shown in New York and several new ones from Cuba. Emilio's exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, followed another busy year of traveling in the Caribbean, this time in the Windward Islands of Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago.
