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The Family
1925
oil on canvas
William and Christopher Brumder Collection
As a young artist, Tamayo drew inspiration from Mexican popular culture. In this family portrait, the couple's formal attire and setting recall Mexican studio photography, in which subjects often posed in front of painted landscapes. The figures' reddish skin color points to Mexico's indigenous and mestizo (racially mixed) populations, a preoccupation in the work of Tamayo, who himself was of Zapotec ancestry. Tamayo brought this painting to New York and exhibited it at the Weyhe Gallery, one of the first galleries to promote Mexican artists |