Museo Camilo Egas (Camilo Egas Museum)

Frommer's Review

Famed Ecuadorian indigenista (indigenist) painter Camilo Egas is featured in this small but striking museum. Housed in an old, colonial-era home, with massive adobe walls and a beautiful central courtyard, the collection features a broad selection of Egas's work. Part of the international vanguard of painters of the early 20th century, Egas spent time in New York, Rome, Madrid, and Paris, where his works were influenced by contemporary trends and styles -- expressionism, surrealism, cubism, and abstract expressionism. He knew and hung out with Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and de Chirico. Throughout it all, his primary subject matter was the Andean indigenous peoples of Ecuador and neighboring countries.

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