Woman with a Bird Cage by Rufino Tamayo
Art Institute of Chicago

Woman with a Bird Cage

Rufino Tamayo · 1941

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Rufino Tamayo; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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, Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Apr. 1946; San Francisco, Museum of Art, May 10–June 9, 1946; Bloomfield Hills, MI, Cranbrook Museum of the Academy of Art, June 23–July 30, 1946; and Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Aug. 1946; no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, 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.
  • Mexican government (organizer), 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.; 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.
  • Madrid, Spain, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Rufino Tamayo: Pinturas, June 29–Oct. 3, 1988, cat. 19.
  • Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, <em>Rufino Tamayo: del reflejo al sueño, 1920–1950</em>, Oct. 1995–Jan. 1996, cat. 70, as <em>Mujer con jaula de pájaros</em>, (organized by Fundación Cultural Televisa).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past, Sept. 5–Nov. 22, 1998; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 20, 1998–Mar. 29, 1999, cat. 224.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1567/they-seek-a-city-chicago-and-the-art-of-migration-1910-1950"><em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950</em></a>, Mar. 3–Jun. 2, 2013, cat. 43.

Literature

Published references

  • Dorothy Odenheimer, "Woman with Bird Cage by Tamayo," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 37, no. 3 (Mar. 1943): 33–35 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4116273">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4116273</a>.
  • Robert Goldwater, <em>Rufino Tamayo</em> (Quadrangle Press, 1947), 81, pl. 37 (ill.).
  • <em>Drawings by Tamayo</em> (Ediciones Mexicanas, 1950), 25 (related drawing).
  • Léon Degand, "La peinture mexicaine du XVIIe s. a nos jours," <em>L'Art d'aujourdhui</em> 3, no. 6 (Aug. 1952): 9, fig. 8 (ill.).
  • Exposition universelle et internationale, <em>Les Arts</em> (Establissements Généreaux d'Impr., 1960), n.p. (ill.).
  • Charles Crehore Cunningham, <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 444, <a hred="https://archive.org/details/paintingsinartin00arti">https://archive.org/details/paintingsinartin00arti</a>
  • Damián Bayón, <em>Hacia Tamayo</em> (Fundación Olga y Rufina Tamayo; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995), 43 (ill.).
  • 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), 38–39, 75, cat. 70 (ill.), as <em>Mujer con jaula de pájaros</em>,<a href="https://archive.org/details/rufinotamayodelr0000tama">https://archive.org/details/rufinotamayodelr0000tama</a>.
  • James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 82 (ill.).
  • Barbara Braun, "West Mexican Art and Modernist Artists," in <em>Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past</em>, ed. Richard Townsend (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 278–79, fig. 20 (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), 211–13, cat. 95 (ill.).
  • Sarah Kelly Oehler, <em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 55–56, cat. 43 (ill.).

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