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Rufino Tamayo
Woman with a Table (Mujer con una mesa)circa 1926-1928

Not on view
Woodcut print in black ink on cream paper, a girl with long hair stands beside a table holding a basket of fruit, with bold expressive marks throughout
Artist or Maker
Rufino Tamayo
Mexico, 1899-1991
Title
Woman with a Table (Mujer con una mesa)
Date Made
circa 1926-1928
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 in. (24.77 × 30.48 cm); image: 7 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (18.73 × 24.13 cm)
Credit Line
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number
AC1997.LWN.505
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes

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.

Provenance
Bernard and Edith Lewin, Rancho Mirage, California; LACMA, 1997.
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Rachel. Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. November 15, 2024–April 24, 2025
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. November 15, 2024–April 24, 2025