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Woman and Bird
1944
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Woman and Bird, 1944. Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991). Oil on canvas; framed: 123.2 x 102.9 x 6.2 cm (48 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 2 7/16 in.); unframed: 106.5 x 86 cm (41 15/16 x 33 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1950.583 © Tamayo Heirs / Mexico / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rufino Tamayo's work often combined his indigenous Zapotec and Mexican background with his interest in European modernism. The color scheme in Woman and Bird is evocative of pre-Columbian pottery, which the artist collected, while the scene's collapsed plane references Tamayo's interest in Cubism.
- Maker/Artist
- Tamayo, Rufino
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 123.2 x 102.9 x 6.2 cm (48 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 2 7/16 in.); Unframed: 106.5 x 86 cm (41 15/16 x 33 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: "Tamayo / O . 44"; [label on verso: "Pajaro Azul (Blue Bird)"]
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1950.583
- Credit Line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Exhibitions
- Segunda Bienal Interamericana de México, Rufino Tamayo, Works from the Contemporary Collection, 20th Century Mexican Painting, Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
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