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Rufino Tamayo
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Fan account of Rufino Tamayo, a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, known for painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences.
1899-1991
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Conquest, from The Apocalypse of Saint John https://www.artic.edu/artworks/17837/
Bequest of Hedwig B. Schniewind
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The Family https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1387/
The Family
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The Woman with Red Mask https://www.wikiart.org/en/rufino-tamayo/the-woman-with-red-mask-1940
The Woman with Red Mask
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Head http://www.moma.org/collection/works/70027
Gift of Marvin Small
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Mask http://www.moma.org/collection/works/76841
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Mujer india https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55493/
These colors may not recall the typical Mexican palette, but they are Mexican nonetheless. They are the paint colors that villagers use on their houses, Rufino Tamayo says. "These are very cheap colors, the only ones the people can afford." This synthesis of old and new Mexico marks Tamayo's work. As a young man in 1921 he was head of the ethnographic drawing department at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. His office was in the middle of the pre-Columbian collections. That and his Zapotec Indian parentage led to a personal style of primitivism. His highly textured figures, says one critic, have a "flayed, corroded, vibrating look."
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Mujeres: Torso of a Woman https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117559/
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Two Figures Against a Mountain Landscape https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/71142
© D.R. Rufino Tamayo / Herederos / México. Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, A.C.
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Bird Watcher http://www.moma.org/collection/works/68287
Inter-American Fund
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Nina a la puerta https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55494/
Nina a la puerta
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Watermelon https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103812
© D.R. Rufino Tamayo / Herederos / México. Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, A.C.
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Man Searching the Heavens https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/227875
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gershinowitz © Rufino Tamayo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Watermelons https://www.wikiart.org/en/rufino-tamayo/watermelons-1977
Watermelons
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Woman in Mauve https://www.artic.edu/artworks/34681/
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Ricketts
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Watermelons https://www.wikiart.org/en/rufino-tamayo/watermelons
Watermelons
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Friend of the Birds https://www.wikiart.org/en/rufino-tamayo/friend-of-the-birds-1944
Friend of the Birds
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Death on a Pale Horse, from Apocalypse of Saint John https://collections.artsmia.org/art/44282/
Rufino Tamayo tried to move past the nationalist themes favored by the generation of Mexican artists that preceded him and toward more universal ones. While working in France in 1959, he produced a series of lithographs illustrating the chapters of the New Testament book of Revelation, Saint John the Divine’s vision of things to come. Included were images of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. Death is front and center here. "I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth." (Revelation 6:8) Death displays consummate horsemanship, riding without saddle or reins, but his steed seems a little spooked. Perhaps Hades is gaining on them'
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Paisaje con luna https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43989/
abstracted landscape; red-brown mountina shape with lines, "cracks"; mottled blue-black sky; pale yellow moon orb Rufino Tamayo was a leading 20th-century Latin American paintner and printmaker who was active both in Mexico and the United States. During the 1940s, he worked with Stanley Hayter at the celebrated print workshop Atelier 17, then located in New York City. He pursued traditional subjects in his art, typically avoiding the leftist political content found in the work of many of his fellow Mexican artists. He produced this austere nocturnal landscape using the intaglio process of mixografia, a three-dimensional printing technique he helped invent. It was developed to capture textures and surface details more commonly seen in painting, collage, or bas-relief. The labor-intensive process requires a high-pressure printing press to simultaneously emboss thick handmade paper and transfer one or more colors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Two Women https://www.artic.edu/artworks/77059/
Print and Drawing Club Fund
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Man at the Door http://www.moma.org/collection/works/76865
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Coyote https://www.artic.edu/artworks/77063/
Print and Drawing Club Fund
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Man, Moon and Stars http://www.moma.org/collection/works/68273
Inter-American Fund
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Profile of a Man http://www.moma.org/collection/works/76844
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Untitled https://www.artic.edu/artworks/77061/
Print and Drawing Club Fund
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Desnudo en gris https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55496/
Desnudo en gris
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM