[1]  Quote transcribed as reproduced in Ana M. Franco, “Geometric Abstraction: The New York–Bogotá Nexus,” American Art 26, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 37. Her source is Camilo Calderón, “Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: Escultura y abstracción” in El espacio en forma: Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Exposición retrospectiva, 1945–85, exh. cat. (Bogotá: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, 1985), 40.  

[2]  Ana M. Franco, “Edgar Negret and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: Transnational Encounters and the Rise of Modernism in Colombian Art, 1944–1964,” (PhD diss., New York University, 2012), 122–123.

[3]  Ibid., 120.

[4]  Ibid., 136–137. See also 144–146.

[5]  Ibid., 136.

[6]  Ibid.

[7]  Ibid., 149.

[8]  Ana M. Franco, “Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar en contexto—pintura, relieve y esculturas entre 1950 y 1974,” in Ramírez Villamizar: Geometría y Abstracción (Bogotá: Ediciones Gamma, 2010), 24.

[9]  Villamizar quoted in his obituary authored by Germán Rubiano Caballero in ArtNexus 3, no. 54 (2004): 66.

[10]  Franco, “Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar en contexto,” 25.

[11]  Quoted in Caballero, 66.

[12]  Franco, “Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar en contexto,” 26–27.

[13]  See Franco, “Geometric Abstraction: The New York–Bogotá Nexus.”

[14]  Stuart Preston, “Mind and Eye,” New York Times, November 6, 1960.

[15]  Franco, “Edgar Negret and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar,” 169.

[16]  Stanton L. Catlin, foreword in Eduardo Ramírez: Sculptor, exh. cat. (New York, NY: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1968), 3.

[17]  Franco, “Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar en contexto,” 34–37.

[18]  Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, “Homenaje a los artífices precolombinos,” reproduced in Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: His Own Sacred Geometry, exh. cat. (Miami: Durban Segnini Gallery, 2017), 40.

[19]  Villamizar, “Homage to Colombian Craftsman,” 41.

[20]  Quote reproduced in Frederico Morais, “Utopia y Forma en Ramírez Villamizar,” in Ramírez Villamizar, exh. cat. (Bogotá: Museo de Arte Moderno, 1984),  31. The author also references hai-kai poetry.