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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.84
People
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (Oaxaca Mexico 1899 - 1991 Mexico City)
Title
Man Searching the Heavens
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Hombre escudriñando el firmamento
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1949
Culture
Mexican
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227875

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 100.01 x 70.17 cm (39 3/8 x 27 5/8 in.)
framed: 102.87 x 72.71 x 4.76 cm (40 1/2 x 28 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: Tamayo, Signed Date: 49

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Millicent Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gershinowitz, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978.

NOTE: Provenance from a letter written by Mr. Gershinowitz, dated 15 March 1978, in the curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gershinowitz
Copyright
© Rufino Tamayo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.84
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Octavio Paz, Rufino Tamayo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico, 1959), reproduced, pl. 55
  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, cat. 66
  • E. Carmen Ramos, Tamayo: The New York Years, exh. cat., Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC and London, 2017), pp. 134-135, 157, fig. 42, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/02/2023 - 10/17/2024
  • Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 03/05/2015 - 06/07/2015
  • Tamayo: The New York Years, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, 11/03/2017 - 03/18/2018

Verification Level

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