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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.90
People
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (Oaxaca Mexico 1899 - 1991 Mexico City)
Title
Total Eclipse
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1946
Culture
Mexican
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228737

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 101.28 x 75.88 cm (39 7/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
framed: 123.19 x 97.47 x 5.72 cm (48 1/2 x 38 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Tamayo

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rufino Tamayo, 1946. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico. Joseph Pulitzer Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1949; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Rufino Tamayo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.90
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1958), pp. 254-255, fig. 111, ill. (plate section, b/w)
  • Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY, 1979), no. 37, p. 62, reproduced in b/w
  • Rufino Tamayo Pinturas, exh. cat., Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain, 1988), reproduced in color no. 25; checklist p. 220
  • Adriana Zavala, Mexico Beyond Its Revolution, Tufts University Art Gallery (Somerville, MA, 2010), pp. 19, 92-93, ill.
  • E. Carmen Ramos, Tamayo: The New York Years, exh. cat., Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC and London, 2017), pp. 130-131, 157, fig. 39, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • New Paintings by Tamayo, Valentine Gallery, New York, 01/01/1947 - 02/15/1947
  • Tamayo, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, 09/22/1947 - 10/04/1947
  • Industrial Fair, Mexican Exhibition, [Unknown venue, Toronto], Toronto, 05/01/1948 - 05/31/1948
  • Mexican Art, Ancient and Modern, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 05/09/1952 - 07/20/1952; Liljevalchs Gallery, Stockholm, 09/01/1952 - 10/31/1952; Tate Britain, London, 03/03/1953 - 04/26/1953; Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Mexico City, 11/01/1953 - 12/31/1953
  • St. Louis Collects, Brooks Art Gallery, Memphis, 02/03/1956 - 02/27/1956
  • Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 04/09/1957 - 05/04/1957; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1957 - 09/15/1957
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Steinberg Hall, 1960, Steinberg Hall, St. Louis, 12/01/1960 - 12/31/1960
  • Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 01/01/1979 - 12/31/1979
  • Rufino Tamayo Pinturas, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 06/29/1988 - 10/03/1988
  • Mexico Beyond Its Revolution, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, 09/09/2010 - 11/14/2010
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/02/2023 - 10/17/2024
  • Tamayo: The New York Years, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, 11/03/2017 - 03/18/2018

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