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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Figure Pieces in Modern Painting, Jan 20-Feb. 14, 1942, cat. 12.

Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Tamayo, May 4-31, 1945, cat. 27.

Council for Inter-American Cooperation (organizer), Six Latin American Painters, traveled to William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, April 1946; San Francisco, Calif., Museum of Art, May 10-June 9, 1946; Cranbrook, Mich, Museum of the Academy of Art, June 23-July 30, 1946; and Dallas, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, Aug. 1946; no cat. located.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, 1947, pp. 41-41, ill.

Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Tamayo: 20 años de su labor pictórica, 1948, cat. 25, ill.

Mexican government (organizer), exhibited in Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, under Art Mexicain du précolumbien a nos jours, May-July 1952, cat. 1063, as Femme a la cage; Stockholm, Sweden, Liljevalchs Konsthall, under Mexikansk Konst från forntid till nutid, Oct. 1952, cat. 1048, as Kvinna med bur.; and London, Tate Gallery, under Exhibition of Mexican Art from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present Day, Mar. 4 to Apr. 26, 1953, cat. 1041.

Exposition de Bruxelles, Mexican Pavilion, 1958.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, May 18-Aug. 12, 1979, cat. 20, ill.

Madrid, Spain, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Rufino Tamayo: Pinturas, June 29-Oct. 3, 1988, cat. 19, ill.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past, Sept. 5-Nov. 22, 1998, cat. 224, fig. 20, p. 278, traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 20, 1998-Mar. 29, 1999.

Mexico City, Fundación Cultural Televisa/Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, Rufino Tamayo: del reflejo al sueño, 1920-1950, Oct. 1995-Jan. 1996, cat. 70.

Publication History

Dorothy Odenheimer, "Woman with Bird Cage by Tamayo," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 3 (Mar. 1943), pp. 33-35, ill.

Robert Goldwater, Rufino Tamayo (New York: Quadrangle Press, 1947), p. 81, pl. 37.

Drawings by Tamayo (Mexico: Ediciones Mexicanas, 1950), p. 25 (related drawing).

Léon Degand, "La peinture mexicaine du XVIIe s. a nos jours," L'Art d'Aujourdhui 3, 6 (Aug. 1952), p. 9, fig. 8

Exposition universelle et internationale, Les Arts (Bruxelles: Establissements Généreaux d'Impr., 1960), n.pag., ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 444.

Damián Bayón, Hacia Tamayo (Mexico: Fundación Olga y Rufina Tamayo; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995), ill. p. 43.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 82, ill.

Barbara Braun, "West Mexican Art and Modernist Artists," in Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, edited by Richard F. Townsend (Art Institute of Chicago/Thames and Hudson, 1998), pp. 278-79, fig. 20.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 95.

Ownership History

Rufino Tamayo; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; sold to Art Institute, 1942.