
Art Institute of Chicago
María Izquierdo
Rufino Tamayo · 1932
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frances A. Elkins, Monterey, CA [incoming ; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Libertyville, IL, David Adler (now Adler Arts Center), term loan, May 10, 1949–July 10, 1950.
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, <em>Mexican Paintings and Drawings</em>, Sept. 13–29, 1953, cat. 45; College Station, Texas A&M University, Oct. 4–19, 1953.
- University of Chicago, term loan, Mar. 26–May 25, 1953.
- Mexico City, Mexico, Palacio de Bellas Artes, <em>Segunda bienal interamericana de México: cincuenta obras de Tamayo</em>, Sept. 5–Nov. 5, 1960, not in cat., (organized by the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno).
- AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, <em>The Works of Rufino Tamayo, 1926–1967</em>, Feb. 13–Mar. 31, 1968, cat. 10.
- Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, <em>Rufino Tamayo: del reflejo al sueño, 1920–1950</em>, Oct. 1995–Jan. 1996, cat. 47 (organized by Fundación Cultural Televisa).
- CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, <em>Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted</em>, Feb. 17–May 27, 2007, cat. 36; Miami Art Museum, June 22–Sept. 16, 2007; Mexico City, Mexico, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Oct. 26, 2007–Jan. 21, 2008.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950</em>, Oct. 25, 2016–Jan. 8, 2017, cat. 107; Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Feb. 3–Apr. 30, 2017; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 14–Oct. 1, 2017.
Literature
Published references
- Lionello Venturi, "Rufino Tamayo," <em>Commentari</em> 1, no. 2 (Apr.–June 1950), 112–13, fig. 131, pl. 50 (ill.).
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, <em>Mexican Paintings and Drawings</em>, exh. cat. (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 1953), n.p., cat. 45, as <em>Portrait of Marie Izquierdo</em>, dated 1941.
- Charles Crehore Cunningham, <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 444.
- James B. Lynch, <em>Tamayo: A Commentary</em>, exh. cat. (Phoenix Museum of Art, 1968), 33, 101, cat. 10.
- Lucia Garcia-Noriega y Nieto, ed., <em>Rufino Tamayo: del reflejo al sueño, 1920–1950</em>, exh. cat. (Fundación Cultural Televisa; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, 1995), 22–24, 74, cat. 47 (ill.), <a href="https://archive.org/details/rufinotamayodelr0000tama">https://archive.org/details/rufinotamayodelr0000tama</a>.
- Diana C. Du Port, <em>Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted</em>, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2007), 135, cat. 36 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 94, cat. 77 (ill.).
- Matthew Affron, et al., eds., <em>Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2016), cat. 107.
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