Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez
Indigenous Woman with Marigolds (Mujer indígena con cempasúchiles)1876

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Indigenismo in Latin America

Oil painting portrait of a young woman in a white blouse, her dark braided hair adorned with a red ribbon, looking down at a small bunch of yellow flowers she holds in both hands

Artist or Maker: Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez
Mexico, Texcoco, 1824-1904
Title: Indigenous Woman with Marigolds (Mujer indígena con cempasúchiles)
Place Made: Mexico
Date Made: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 26 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 5/8 in. (67.95 × 56.52 × 1.59 cm); framed: 32 3/4 × 28 × 2 in. (83.19 × 71.12 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ronald A. Belkin, Long Beach, California
Accession Number: M.2013.130.2
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: This allegorical portrait of a pregnant Indigenous woman wearing a huipil (a loose blouse with origins in the pre-Conquest period) is emblematic of Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez’s interest in costumbrista images (scenes of everyday life). The figure is portrayed gazing at a marigold, a flower widely associated with death in Mexico.

One of Mexico’s foremost academic artists, Gutiérrez trained at the Royal Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, where he was influenced by the Catalan painter Pelegrín Clavé (1811–1880). Everyday subjects were of particular interest among nineteenth-century academic artists (see M.2014.205). From 1848 to 1854, Gutiérrez taught at the Instituto Literario de Toluca, but by 1855 he was back at the Academy of San Carlos, remaining there until 1858. A prolific writer and highly peripatetic artist, Gutiérrez traveled incessantly in Mexico, South America, Europe, and the United States, where he interacted with local artists, including in New York and San Francisco.

Ilona Katzew

2014
Selected Bibliography: Manthorne, Katherine. California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820-1930. Laguna Beach: Laguna Art Museum, 2017.

Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez
Indigenous Woman with Marigolds (Mujer indígena con cempasúchiles)1876

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Indigenismo in Latin America

Artist or Maker: Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez
Mexico, Texcoco, 1824-1904
Title: Indigenous Woman with Marigolds (Mujer indígena con cempasúchiles)
Place Made: Mexico
Date Made: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 26 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 5/8 in. (67.95 × 56.52 × 1.59 cm); framed: 32 3/4 × 28 × 2 in. (83.19 × 71.12 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ronald A. Belkin, Long Beach, California
Accession Number: M.2013.130.2
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: This allegorical portrait of a pregnant Indigenous woman wearing a huipil (a loose blouse with origins in the pre-Conquest period) is emblematic of Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez’s interest in costumbrista images (scenes of everyday life). The figure is portrayed gazing at a marigold, a flower widely associated with death in Mexico.

One of Mexico’s foremost academic artists, Gutiérrez trained at the Royal Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, where he was influenced by the Catalan painter Pelegrín Clavé (1811–1880). Everyday subjects were of particular interest among nineteenth-century academic artists (see M.2014.205). From 1848 to 1854, Gutiérrez taught at the Instituto Literario de Toluca, but by 1855 he was back at the Academy of San Carlos, remaining there until 1858. A prolific writer and highly peripatetic artist, Gutiérrez traveled incessantly in Mexico, South America, Europe, and the United States, where he interacted with local artists, including in New York and San Francisco.

Ilona Katzew

2014
Selected Bibliography: Manthorne, Katherine. California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820-1930. Laguna Beach: Laguna Art Museum, 2017.