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Permanent Shows

If you would like to go to a museum to actually see a Quintanilla there are only three places, that I know of, where his work is on permanent exhibit.

The Love Peace Hate War Murals

These can be found in the Paraninfo (Calle Sevilla 16) of the University of Cantabria in the heart of Santander Spain.

The Don Quixote in the Heartland Murals

These are located at the University of Missouri, in Kansas City, Missouri. Go to Haag Hall.

Franco's Black Spain and the Drawings of the War in Spain

Ten of each (twenty all together) are hanging now in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. They are two galleries away from Picasso's Guernica.

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Everything else is either in museum storage, private collections, or has disappeared. For information of the whereabouts (in storage) of some of his engravings go to the listing of Public Collections in the American Printmakers On-line Catalogue Raisonne Project: The Prints of Luis Quintanilla.

The Portrait of Pablo Casals, as well as other paintings, are in storage at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.

The gift Jean Cassou accepted in the late fifties is in storage at the Pompidou, in Paris.

The large bequest to the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santander, Spain, is in storage. (Though they promised to devote an entire room to his work.)

There are a few drawings in important American museums: at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and other large municipal museums. These are mostly drawings of the Spanish Civil War. None have been shown in years.

1913	First one man show in Paris. Galerie Marcel Panadil.
1925	International Exposition of Decorative Arts. Spanish Pavilion. Paris. (All this work has disappeared.)
1926	Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. A show of his frescoes done in Italy while learning to paint al fresco. (Disappeared.)
1927	Palacio del Liria. Presentation of the four lunettes in the home of Duke of Alba, Madrid. (Destroyed in the Spanish Civil War.)
1929	Frescoes for the Spanish Consulate in Hendaye, France. (Destroyed by the Franco government.)
1931	Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Madrid. Fresco for the Entrance Hall. (Hidden and then restored after the fall of the Franco government.)
1932	1932 Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Madrid. Show of his Madrid dry points, bringing his first widespread recognition. (Many of these have been saved, though the plates are gone.)
	Casa del Pueblo, Madrid. Frescoes. (These were destroyed by the Franco government after the war.)
	Monumento a Pablo Iglesias, Madrid. With the architect Esteban de la Mora and the sculptor Emiliano Barral wins the competition to build the memorial. (Damaged by the war and destroyed by the Franco government after the war.)
	University City, Madrid. Fresco for the Administration Building. (Destroyed either by the war or the Franco government following the war.)
1934	Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Madrid dry points. Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and Pierre Matisse organized this show.
1938	Hotel Ritz, Barcelona. Drawings of the Spanish Civil War. (Most of these survive.)
	Museum of Modern Art, New York. Drawings of the Spanish Civil War. Under the auspices of the Rockefeller Fountaion this show travelled to various cities in the United States.
1939	Associated American Artists Gallery, New York. The Love Peace Hate War murals as well as other new work created in the United States. Over the next few years this show traveled to:
	Art Museum of Saint Paul (Minnesota) Chappel House Gallery of Denver (Colorado) Art Museum of Portland (Oregon) De Young Museum of San Francisco (California) Art Institute of Zanesville (Ohio) Dayton Art Institute of Dayton (Ohio)
1940	New School for Social Research, New York.
1941	University of Kansas City, Kansas City. Don Quixote Murals. (These not only survive but they were recently cleaned and restored.)
1944	Knoedler Galleries, New York. “Totalitarian Europe.” Drawings and watercolors of the horrors of war.
1957	Wildenstein’s, New York. Paintings from the 1950’s, including the portrait of Pablo Casals.
1957	Galerie Marcel Coard, Paris. American paintings. His first show in Europe since the 1930s.
1959	Salle Gaveau, Paris. Pablo Casals suggested to Andre Gaveau that this show take place in the famous concert hall. American and recent European paintings.
1972	Tokyo, Japan. A show of Spanish engravers, including Goya and Picasso, which traveled through Japan.
1978	Toledo, Spain. “Maestros del grabado contemporaneo.” Graphic works in a group show
	Museo de Arte Moderno, Madrid. A posthumous retrospective.
	Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Santander. A retrospective.
1999	Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, New York. Drawings of the Spanish Civil War.
2005	Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. Drawings and engravings.
2007	Los Fresco de Luis Quintanilla sobre la guerra. Santander, Paraninfo de la Universidad de Cantabria. Exposicion permanente. Presentacion: Federico Gutierrez-Solana Salcedo. Estudio: Javier Gomez Martinez y Esther Lopez Sobrado.
2009/10	El Nexo Espanol (The Spanish Nexus: Spanish Artists in New York, 1930-1960.) Instituto Cervantes New York and the Ministry of Culture in Spain.
2009/10	Luis Quintanilla, testigo de guerra. Paranifo de la Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.