"This book evolved from a symposium organized by the Center for the History of Collecting that was held at The Frick Collection on May 16 and 17, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acquisitive passions : observations on collecting the art of the Americas in the United States / Edward J. Sullivan -- Evolving taxonomies at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and 40s and the definitions of the "Latin American collection" / Miriam Margarita Basilio -- Hot styles and Cold War : collecting practices at the Museum of Modern Art and other museums in the sixties / Delia Solomons -- The Philadelphia story / Joseph Rishel -- Cargadores : collecting Rivera, Mexican modernism, and bearing the burdens of historiography / Anna Indych-López -- An American museum : representing the arts of Mexico at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Ronda Kasl -- Building a model of diversity : Grace McCann Morley and collecting modern Latin American art in San Francisco / Berit Potter -- Inverted strategies : an exhibition as matrix for a permanent collection / Mari Carmen Ramírez -- Beyond Mexico : the evolution of Phoenix Art Museum's Latin American collection / Vaness K. Davidson -- Robert and Richard Huber's adventures in collecting / Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt -- Expanding paradigms : the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the changing of Latin American art / Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro -- Collecting Latin American art in the United States from New Spain to today : a life's story / Estrellita B. Brodsky.