Mexican Girl

1943

Emilio Amero

Born Ixtlahuaca, Mexico, 1901; died Norman, Oklahoma, 1976

Tempera on composite board

23 1/2 in x 19 1/4 in (59.7 x 48.9 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

43.26

Provenance: the artist; purchased by the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, October or November, 1943

Photo: Susan Cole

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Twenty-ninth Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, October 6-November 7, 1943. Catalogue no. 2 [for sale].

Mexico City, Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, Resisting Oblivion, November 26, 2008-March 8, 2009 (Oaxaca, Museum de Artes Graficas, March 27-May 8, 2009). No catalogue.

Published ReferencesZúñiga, Ariel. Emilio Amero: A Liminal Modernist. Mexico City: Albedrío, 2008; p. 82, reproduced fig. 62, pp. 80, 181 [erroneously titled Figure or Two Figures].

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