Lettered Artists and the Languages of EmpireArvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019 Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South Americas most important artistic centers. Yet the literature on painting in colonial Quito largely ignores the first century of activity, reducing it to a handful of names, writes Susan Verdi Webster. In this major new work based on extensive and largely unpublished archival documentation, Webster identifies and traces the lives of more than