Carnival

Media - 2017.22 - SAAM-2017.22_2 - 130145
Copied Rufino Tamayo, Carnival, 1936, gouache on paper, 15 × 22 in. (38.1 × 55.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2017.22

Artwork Details

Title
Carnival
Date
1936
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
15 × 22 in. (38.1 × 55.9 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Mediums Description
gouache on paper
Classifications
Keywords
  • Emblem — heart
  • Landscape — celestial — moon
  • Performing arts — circus — clown
  • Object — other — flag
  • Figure group
Object Number
2017.22

Related Books

This is the cover of the "Tamayo: The New York Years" book displaying Rufino Tamayo's Carnival painting.
Tamayo: The New York Years
Tamayo: The New York Years explores the influences between Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991), a major Mexican modernist best known for his boldly colored, semiabstract paintings, and the American art world. It reveals how he forged a new path in the modern art of the Americas and contributed to New York’s dynamic cultural scene as the city was becoming a center of postwar art. 

Exhibitions

This is a Tamayo painting of a New York City skyline and a person looking at it through a telescope.
Tamayo: The New York Years
November 2, 2017March 17, 2018
Tamayo: The New York Years is the first exhibition to explore the influences between this major Mexican modernist and the American art world.