Pacita Abad was a ... including The Art Students League in New York and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. Towards the end of her extremely prolific career—having produced some 5,000 works ...

At the end of the Pacita Abad retrospective at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis last summer, there hung, unassumingly, her most monumental work: a 17-foot-high trapunto painting titled Marcos ...