Horse and Running Girl

1937

Rufino Tamayo

Associated Names
Rufino Tamayo

Artist, Mexican, 1899 - 1991

This is a painting of a person running beside a dark horse in a mountainous landscape. The person has their back to us, and they are running towards the left. They have pale skin and are draped in light-colored garments, including what looks like a long white veil covering their hair. The horse next to them is black and stands close to the center of the composition with its body facing the left and its head turned away from us. The background features an earth-toned hill or dune, with the sky painted in muted grays and browns. The scene is captured with soft, visible brushstrokes.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    transparent watercolor over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.59 × 27.94 cm (8 1/2 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.17.26


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA); purchased 1969 by Robert and Mercedes Eichholz, Santa Barbara, California; bequest to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • "American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: TAMAYO 37.

Watermarks

COLLINS S R W

Wikidata ID

Q64630023

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