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Rufino Tamayo Biography
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1899 |
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Born: in Oaxaco, Mexico on August 26th
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1917 - 1921 |
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Attended the School of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
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1921 |
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Became head of the ethnographic drawing department at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City, Mexico
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1950 |
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Exhibited at the Venice Biennale
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1974 |
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Founded the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art through the donation of his collection of pre-Columbian art
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1981 |
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Donated his collection of international art to the people of Mexico
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1991 |
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Died: in Mexico City, Mexico on June 24th
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Frida Kahlo, Deigo Rivera and Mexican Modernism, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
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2005
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Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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2003
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The Magician and the Mechanic: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Early Years, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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2002
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The Latin Century Beyond the Border, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
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2000
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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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1999
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Art in post-Revolutionary Mexico, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX
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1998
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Latin American Masters, Los Angeles, CA
Rufino Tamayo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
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1995
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Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
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1994
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The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
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1993
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Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Rufino Tamayo: Works from Six Decades, Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York, NY
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1959
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Tamayo, Knoedler Galleries, New York
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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| Literature |
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2007
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Du Pont, Diana C. Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted. New York: Turner Publishing, 2007
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2004
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Martinez, Ramiro, Juan Carlos Pereda, and Raquel Tibol. The Prints Of Rufino Tamayo (Artes Visuales Turner). New York: Turner Publishing, 2004
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2000
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del Conde, Teresa. Tamayo. Boston: Bulfinch Publishing, 2000
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1995
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Lassaigne, Jacques and Octavio Paz. Rufino Tamayo. Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, 1995
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1979
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Tamayo, Rufino. Rufino Tamayo, Myth and Magic. Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979
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| Links to further information |
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