‘Tamayo: The New York Years’ Chronicles Mexican Artist’s Modernist Legacy

WASHINGTON DIPLOMAT, Jan 31 2018 >

“The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s innovative exhibition on Mexican modernist Rufino Tamayo explores the links between the artist’s dynamic work and the vibrant world of New York’s art scene in the 20th century.

Tamayo: The New York Years takes a look at the way the artist was shaped by his time living in the city intermittently from the late 1920s to 1949, and how he infused that transformative experience with his study of pre-Columbian and Mexican folk art to develop his own vision. The inventive show also reflects on the ways he crossed borders and influenced other artists with his aesthetic focus, placing Tamayo at the heart of American modernism in the last century even as his path diverged from some of the most famous Mexican artists of the era.”