Emilio Sanchez Fonts (1921–1999) was a Cuban American artist known for his

architectural paintings, drawings, and graphic prints of New York, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a realist artist, he was attracted to folklore and the vernacular, with architectural scenes of everyday life taking preference over the great historical narratives of western civilization. His keen eye and remarkable ability to edit incidental elements also made him a painter of dreamlike architectural enigmas, as if the buildings he depicted existed only in memory. Sanchez’s work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC), the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (Havana), the Museo de Arte Moderno (Bogotá), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He received First Prize at the 1974 San Juan Biennial in, Puerto Rico, and was awarded the CINTAS Fellowship in the Visual Arts (1989-90). His remarkable story, like that of his tragic country, is a tale of powerful contrasts, intense light, and mysteriously penetrating shadows.

埃米利奥·桑切斯·方茨（Emilio Sanchez Fonts，1921-1999）是一位古巴裔美国艺术家，他以纽约、拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的建筑绘画、素描和平面印刷品而闻名。作为一个现实主义艺术家，他受民间传说和乡土气息所吸引，比起西方文明的伟大历史叙事，他更重视日常生活的建筑场景。他敏锐的眼光和编辑偶然元素的非凡能力，也使他成为梦幻般的建筑之谜的画家，仿佛他描绘的建筑只存在于记忆中。桑切斯的作品被许多机构长久收藏，包括大都会艺术博物馆（纽约）、波士顿美术博物馆、布鲁克林艺术博物馆、赫什霍恩博物馆和雕塑园（华盛顿特区）、哈瓦那国家艺术博物馆（哈瓦那）、现代艺术博物馆（波哥大）和费城艺术博物馆。他在1974年波多黎各的圣胡安双年展上获得了一等奖，并被授予CINTAS视觉艺术奖学金（1989-90）。他非凡的故事，就像他悲惨的国家一样，是一个充满强烈对比、强烈光线和神秘穿透阴影的故事。