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New Masses
January 1927 and April 1927
Columbia University Libraries
Tamayo contributed several illustrations to the leftist journal New Masses, where his friend the Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias served as an editor. Tamayo's contributions often addressed the indigenous and proletarian subjects that US audiences expected of a Mexican artist, such as the peasant couple that illustrates the January 1927 cover. It was the modern city, however, that captivated Tamayo during these first years in New York. His illustration of well-dressed women in conversation, perhaps on the subway, echoes the "New Woman" archetype represented by working women in public space that also appeared in the paintings of Tamayo's acquaintance Reginald Marsh. |