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San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.

Woman from Tehuantepec

San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Peggy Tenison. © María Elena Rico Covarrubias

Woman from Tehuantepec

Artist: (Mexican, 1904 - 1957)
Place made:Mexico, North and Central America
Date: 1944
Dimensions:
31 x 37 1/4 in. (78.7 x 94.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation
Object number: 96.37
Copyright: © Maria Elena Rico Covarrubias
Published References Image used in calendar titled Latin American Art 2008, published by Universe Publishing (Rizzoli)
Label Text
Miguel Covarrubias was a prominent Mexican caricaturist, writer, and painter. Along with being an illustrator for U.S. publications such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, he had an active interest in the ethnography and archaeology of Mexico. While conducting research for his book Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Covarrubias painted this work, which depicts a Zapotec woman from Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca. At the bottom left of the painting, there is woman carrying an iguana by the tail as she holds the rest of her wares above her head.
(Lucía Abramovich, 2019)

Miguel Covarrubias fue un destacado caricaturista, escritor y pintor mexicano. Además de ser ilustrador de publicaciones estadounidenses como: Vanity Fair y The New Yorker; poseyó un interés activo en la etnografía y arqueología de México. Covarrubias pintó esta obra mientras realizaba una investigación para su libro: México Sur: El istmo de Tehuantepec; ésta representa a una mujer zapoteca de Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca. En la parte inferior izquierda de la pintura, hay una mujer que lleva una iguana por la cola mientras sostiene el resto de sus artículos sobre su cabeza.
(Lucía Abramovich, 2019)


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