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The Olmec-Maya and Now was first exhibited at the Commonwealth Institute in London in June 1985. In 1989, the artist Denis Bowen remembered it as "a major exhibition with a significant body of work of the highest calibre" which "assure[d] [Williams'] place in the British art scene". The exhibition was opened by Terry Waite.One of the paintings in the series, Olmec Maya—Now and Coming Time, was presented to the Tate by the Aubrey Williams Estate in 1993.
Denis Bowen the Tate Aubrey Williams Tate Commonwealth Institute Terry Waite Maya Olmec