Joaquín Sorolla

Vision of Spain is a set of 14 large panels painted for the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Sorolla worked on the commission in the 1910s after Archer Milton Huntington invited him to create a panorama of Spanish regions.

Sorolla is famous for bright Mediterranean light, white clothing, wet sand, and moving children or fishermen on the Valencia coast. Paintings such as The Horse's Bath from 1909 show how he used sunlight as a main subject.

He also painted portraits, social realist works, and large historical or regional scenes. Sad Inheritance, painted in 1899, is one of his best-known social paintings.

The Museo Sorolla is in Madrid, in the artist's former house and studio. Sorolla died in 1923, and the museum preserves many works, sketches, and personal objects.