Founded in 1937 with works donated by public institutions and various artists invited to the XX Venice Biennale and the II Rome Quadriennale, the collection was largely dispersed due to wartime events. In 1994, about sixty remaining works and a significant group recovered by the Carabinieri Corps were permanently displayed to the public. Since 1996, an acquisition project through further donations has enriched the Gallery with an additional 400 works. Currently, the Gallery is housed in five rooms of the Palazzo della Cultura and collects artworks that offer a journey through Italian art between the two wars, focusing mainly on the 1930s. Noteworthy are paintings by Pippo Rizzo, Annunciation; Dyalma Stultus, The Angel; Bruno Saetti, The Family; Primo Conti, Maternity; Plinio Nomellini, Flowering Countryside; Francesco de Rocchi, Still Life; Corrado Cagli, The Roman Woman; and landscapes by Angilotto Modotto, Arturo Nathan, Evening Landscape; Achille Vertunni, Pontine Marshes; Arturo Tosi, The Lake – together with the group of twentieth-century sculptures by Marino Marini, Lelio Gelli, Francesco Wildt, Mario Fioroni, Roberto Castagnino.
Information about the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Via Umberto I, 39/41
04100 Latina (Latina)
0773652624
musei@comune.latina.it
https://www.musei.it/lazio/latina/galleria-civica-d-arte-moderna-e-contemporanea.asp
Source: MIBACT
