traditional media of pencil drawing, oil painting on board, carved wood sculpture, and bas relief in plaster. Exhibitions Because he is not prolific, López has had only a handful of one-artist shows. His first individual show was held at the Ateneo de Madrid in 1957. Three have been in New York: two in the 1960s and one, in 1986, at his current representative, the Marlborough Gallery. In 2008 he was featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition included the two enormous bronze heads he sculpted of his grandchildren, which were placed on the front lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts. His work is in several major U.S. museum collections. Recognition and influence During most of his career, Antonio López García worked amidst an artistic culture dominated first by abstraction and later by conceptual currents. In the 1960s and the 1970s, his prestige quietly grew. It is possible to establish links between his work and the new European figurative tendencies or the American hyperrealism. López has won numerous awards. After winning the III National Art Contest in his final year of art school, he was awarded a trip to Italy by the Spanish Ministry of Education, in order to study the works of Renaissance masters. He has also been awarded the Medalla de Oro from Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 2004, López was inducted as an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, and in 2006 he was awarded the Velázquez Prize for Fine Arts. Films López is featured in an award-winning 1992 film, El Sol del Membrillo, directed by Victor Erice and written by both. The film, which portrays López's struggles to paint, and then draw, a small quince tree growing in the backyard of his studio, gives considerable attention to his almost fanatically exacting working methods. Public Collections Baltimore Museum of Art Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Kunsthalle Hamburg Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum See also Hyperrealism (visual arts) Magic Realism Notes References Antonio López García by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Edward J. Sullivan, and Michael Brenson, Rizzoli, pp. 358 Quotes are from Michael