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Mad Dog
1943
oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Herbert Cameron Morris, 1945
Some of Tamayo's animal paintings include specifically Mexican references, perhaps signaling his intent to reimagine national emblems on his own terms. The desperate, rabid dog seen here is set in a Mexican landscape suggested by a nopal cactus, a plant associated with the pre-Columbian Mexica pictograph that still appears on the Mexican flag |