Mujeres de Metepec (Women of Metepec)

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Artist Carlos Mérida(Guatemalan, 1891–1984)Guatemalan, 1891–1984

CultureGuatemalan

Titles

Mujeres de Metepec (Women of Metepec)

Date1922

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 30 11/16 × 29 3/4 in. (78 × 75.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Alfred Glassell III in honor of Rusty Wortham and his twenty years of service in the Latin American Art Sub-committee

Object number2023.240

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 203

Exposé

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Department

Latin American Art

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMaestro Francisco Cornejo; Fundación Manuel Arango, Mexico City; Private collection, San Antonio, Texas; purchased by MFAH, 2023.

Exhibition History"Independent Artists Exhibition," New York, 1922.

"Exposición Homenaje a Carlos Mérida," Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, May–June, 1977.

"Images of Mexico, The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art," Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, December 5, 1987–February 28, 1988; Messeplast, Vienna, May 17–June 31, 1988; Dallas Museum of Art, August 28–October 30, 1988.

"Homenaje Nacional a Carlos Mérida, Americanismo y Abstracción," Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, November, 1992–January, 1993; Museo de Monterrey, Mexico, February–April, 1992.

"From Revolution to Renaissance, Mexican Art from the Aaron Collection," Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, April, 2007–January, 2008.

"Revolution & Renaissance, Mexico & San Antonio, 1910-2010," Museo Alameda Smithsonian, San Antonio, November, 2010–August, 2012.

"The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920’s," Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, February–May, 2019; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, June–September, 2019; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, October , 2019–January 2020; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, February–August, 2020.
Published References The work was published in the following publications: Anita Brenner, Idols Behind Altars, Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1929, no. 64, illus. p. 233. Margarita Nelken, Carlos Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Colección de Arte no. 9, cat. no. 3, illus. p. 59, listed p. 53. Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Carlos Mérida, Color y Forma, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, INBA, Mexico City, no. 15, illus. in color. Aside from these the following are notable publications on the artist: Mérida, Carlos and Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. Carlos Mérida. San Antonio:Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1962. University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum. A Salute to Carlos Mérida: [Catalog of the Exhibition] December 5, 1976-January 23, 1977. University of Texas Art Museum, 1976. Center for Inter-American Relations (N.Y.), et al. Carlos Mérida: Graphic Work 1915-1981. 1981. Mérida Carlos, et al. Carlos Mérida en sus 90 años. Mexico: Cartón y Papel De México, 1981. Cardoza, Aragón Luis, and Carlos Mérida. Carlos Mérida: Color y forma. 1. ed. Mexico: Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura y Las Artes, 1992. Mérida, Carlos et al. Homenaje Nacional a Carlos Mérida: Americanismo y abstracción. Mexico: Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura y Las Artes, Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes, 1992. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed and dated in black oil paint, left bottom edge: · CARLOS · MERIDA · XXII [print]
Verso: Dedicated, signed, and dated in graphite on upper left of canvas: A Pancha Com[illegible] / CARLOS / MERÍDA / 1922–1932

Recto: Signed in black oil paint, left bottom edge: · CARLOS · MERIDA · [print]
Verso: Signed in graphite on upper left: CARLOS / MERÍDA

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