About This Artwork

Rufino Tamayo
Mexican, 1899-1991

María Izquierdo, 1932

Oil on canvas
75.3 x 64.5 cm (29 5/8 x 25 3/8 in.)
Signed lower right: Tamayo / 32
Gift of Frances A. Elkins, 1946.340

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Houston, Tex., Contemporary Arts Museum, Mexican Paintings and Drawings, September 13-29, 1953, cat. 45, traveled to College Station, Tex., Texas A&M University, October 4-19, 1953.

University of Chicago, 1953.

Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Il Bienal Interamerican de Mexico, September 5-November 5, 1960.

Phoenix, Ariz., Phoenix Art Museum, The Works of Rufino Tamayo, 1926-1967, March 1968, cat. 10.

Mexico City, Fundación Cultural Televisa/Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, Rufino Tamayo: del reflejo al sueño, 1920-1950, October 1995-January 1996, cat. 47.

Santa Barbara, Ca., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, February 17-May 27, 2007, cat. 36, ill. p. 135.

Publication History

L. Venturi, "Rufino Tamayo," Commentari 1, 2 (Apr.-June 1950), pp. 112-13, fig. 131, pl. 50.

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

Rufino Tamayo: del reflejo al sueño, 1920-1950 (Mexico City, Fundación Cultural Televisa/Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, 1995), pp. 23-24, ill.

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. 94.

Ownership History

Mrs. Frances A. Elkins, Monterey, Ca.; given to the Art Institute in 1946.