page_title: Hispanic and Latino Americans
section_title: Artists
hierarchical_section_title: Hispanic and Latino Americans / Notable contributions / Arts and entertainment / Artists
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Rita de Acosta Lydig by Giovanni Boldini. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated “Boldini 1911” (lower right)
context_page_description: In the United States, Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans who are descendants of people from Spain and Latin America. More generally, these demographics include all Americans who identify as Hispanic and/or Latino. As of 2018, the Census Bureau estimated that there were almost 60 million Hispanics living in the United States.
  "Origin" can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify as Spanish or Hispanic may be of any race. As one of the only two specifically designated categories of ethnicity in the United States, Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Hispanic Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan, or Colombian origin. The predominant origin of regional Hispanic populations varies widely in different locations across the country.
  Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United States after Asian Americans.
context_section_description: Notable Hispanic and Latino artists include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carmen Herrera, Gronk, Luis Jiménez, Félix González-Torres, Ana Mendieta, Joe Shannon, Richard Serra, Abelardo Morell, Bill Melendez, María Magdalena Campos Pons, Sandra Ramos, Myrna Báez, and Soraida Martinez.
caption: Rita de Acosta Lydig
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