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Woman from Tehuantepec

(Mexican (active in Mexico and the United States), 1899–1991)
1937
Medium/TechniqueTransparent watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
DimensionsSheet: 28.3 x 21.6 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Framed: 43.8 x 37.1 cm (17 1/4 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the William H. Lane Foundation
Accession number1990.450
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
ProvenanceDecember 15, 1953, sold by Downtown Gallery, New York to William H. Lane (b. 1914 – d. 1995), Leominster, MA [see note 1]; 1953, transferred to the William H. Lane Foundation, Leominster; 1990, gift of the William H. Lane Foundation to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 18, 1990)

NOTES:
[1] Archives of American Art, Downtown Gallery Records, Series 4, Business Records: Sales Slips (2 of 2), 1953: Reel 5627 (Box 72), 735.
CopyrightArt © Estate of Rufino Tamayo. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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