Woman with a Table (Mujer con una mesa)

Latin American Modernism
Art © Tamayo Heirs/ Mexico/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Woman with a Table (Mujer con una mesa)

Mexico, circa 1926-1928
Prints; woodcuts
Woodcut
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 in. (24.77 × 30.48 cm); image: 7 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (18.73 × 24.13 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (AC1997.LWN.505)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

In June 1926 Rufino Tamayo traveled to New York for the first time.

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In June 1926 Rufino Tamayo traveled to New York for the first time. Through an introduction from artist and critic Walter Pach (1883–1958), Tamayo soon arranged for an exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery—an important venue at the time for exhibiting Mexican art in New York. Over the next two years, before returning to Mexico in June 1928, Tamayo created eight woodcuts at the urging of Weyhe Gallery director Carl Zigrosser (1891–1975). Woman with a Table, alternately known as Girl Standing, belongs to this group.

Though the woodcut has a rich history in Mexico, French-born artist Jean Charlot (1898–1979) reintroduced the technique after arriving in 1921 and young artists embraced it as a forceful means of visual expression. Tamayo’s woodcuts from the mid-1920s correspond with this national impulse. In Woman with a Table the artist highlights the process of the technique by emphasizing the print’s carved lines. Despite Tamayo’s prolific printmaking career, his woodcuts comprise a very small portion of this output, ceasing after 1935.


For more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure, 2019, pp.14–15.
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Provenance

Bernard and Edith Lewin, Rancho Mirage, California; LACMA, 1997.

Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Rachel. Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.

Exhibition history

  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Pomona, CA, Millard Sheets Art Center, May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Pomona, CA, Millard Sheets Art Center, May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, November 15, 2024 - April 24, 2025
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