Shared Dreams: Celebrating the recent gift of the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Latin American Art Collection

Opens September 21, 2025

Leonora Carrington, Artes 110 (Arts 110), 8 Febrie, 1944, Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 in (40.6 x 60.9 cm), NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; promised gift of Pearl and Stanley Goodman, PG2012.1.12. © 2025 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Shared Dreams celebrates the gift of over 90 masterworks of 20th-century Latin American art donated by Pearl and Stanley Goodman to the Museum’s collection. The Fort Lauderdale-based couple studiously assembled this comprehensive selection of exceptional works over a period of forty years with the goal of donating it to NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Treasures include the first painting Leonora Carrington created on her relocation to Mexico City from Europe during World War II, Diego Rivera’s designs for his unrealized Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) murals, a Frida Kahlo self-portrait from the pages of her diary, three prime Surrealist paintings by Wifredo Lam, and paintings by Remedios Varo, Joaquín Torres-García and Roberto Matta, among others. The exhibition tracks the circulation of art and ideas that stemmed from these artists’ international interactions.