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Exhibitions

June 22 – September 2, 2007
Black and white photo of woman in white dress reclining on wooden log
Lola Álvarez Bravo, El ensueño (The Dream), Isabel Villaseñor, Chachalacas, Veracruz, 1941, silver gelatin print, Private Collection

Esta exposición mostró el trabajo artístico de 26 mujeres que han producido arte desde principios del siglo XX. Estas artistas utilizaron la pintura, fotografía, grabado y escultura como medio para proporcionar una mirada a la modernidad a través de diferentes perspectivas y planteamientos. Fueron creadoras, musas y mujeres con una conciencia social. Estas mujeres excepcionales no se limitaron a las artes visuales, sino que también se expresaron en la música, la danza, la literatura, el teatro y el cine.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1907-1993), Carmen Antúnez (1900-1981), Angelina Beloff (1879-1969), Rosario Cabrera (1901-1975), Celia Calderón (1921-1969), Leonora Carrington (b.1917), Rosa Castillo (1910-1989) Elizabeth Catlett (b.1919), Olga Costa (1913-1993), Lola Cueto (1897-1978) Andrea Gómez (b.1926), Kati Horna (1912-2000), Elena Huerta (1908-1999), Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955), Sarah Jiménez Vernis (b.1928), Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Rina Lazo (b.1928), Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Fanny Rabel (b.1922), Alice Rahon (1914-1987), Aurora Reyes (1908-1985), Rosa Rolando (1895-1970), Cordelia Urueta (1908-1995), Remedios Varo (1908-1963), Isabel Villaseñor (1909-1953), Mariana Yampolsky (1925-2002)

CURATOR

Dolores Mercado assisted by Tomás Zurián

ORGANIZING INSTITUTION

National Museum of Mexican Art


GALLERY VIEWS

All images below are a glimpse into the exhibition for those who could not attend in person.


TRAVELING EXHIBITION VENUES

Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City (Mujeres artistas en el México de la Modernidad: Las contemporáneas de Frida July 15 – August 12, 2008)

Exhibition Highlights

  • Woman in dress and high heels leaning against wooden dresser with white cloth on it
    1 / 10María Izquierdo, Retrato de Belém (Portrait of Belém), 1928, oil on canvas, Andrés Blaisten Collection
  • Gallery view shows three walls but focuses on back wall with two paintings and artist description
    2 / 10Angelina Beloff on back wall (visible from L-R): Calle de Liverpool (Liverpool Street), 1953; Alameda de Santa María (Santa Maria Park), 1958
  • Gallery image of two walls. Left wall shows one painting, right wall shows three works of art and artist description
    3 / 10Gallery view
  • Close up image of textile. Woman holding basket of fruits over her head in the middle of forest
    4 / 10Dolores Velásquez de Cueto (Lola Cueto), Tehuana (Woman from Tehuantepec), 1923, textile, Private Collection
  • Highlights two walls featuring Cueto’s work. Left wall shows two textile pieces and artist description. Right wall shows three black and white etchings
    5 / 10Lola Cueto (visible from L-R): Mercado (Market), 1925; Woman from Tehuana / Tehuantepec, 1923; Quimera #8 / Chimera #8, 1959; Un Vía Crucis (The Way of the Cross), 1950; El torito (The Little Bull), 1948
  • One gallery wall visible with three paintings
    6 / 10Rosario Cabrera (visible from L-R): Casa roja (Red House), 1926; Paisaje (Landscape), 1928; Muchacha de rebozo azul (Girl with a Blue Rebozo), 1922
  • One gallery wall visible with three paintings
    7 / 10Olga Costa (visible from L-R): Ofrenda de Muertos (Day of the Dead Offering), 1965-67; Flores secas (Dry Flowers), 1962; Campos labrantíos (Planted Fields), 1968
  • Gallery view shows three walls but focuses on central wall with one painting depicting the body of a deer with a woman’s head.
    8 / 10(Central image) Frida Kahlo, La venadita (The Little Deer), 1946, oil on Masonite, Private Collection
  • Black and white photo of woman in white dress reclining on wooden log
    9 / 10Lola Álvarez Bravo, El ensueño (The Dream), Isabel Villaseñor, Chachalacas, Veracruz, 1941, silver gelatin print, Private Collection
  • Surrealist style painting of figure feeding a crescent moon
    10 / 10Remedios Varo, Papilla estelar (Stellar Pablum), 1958, oil on masonite, Courtesy of Gary and Kathie Heidenreich and Frey Norris Gallery

Additional Exhibition Highlights

  • Black and white photo shot from above of large group of people in the street with black umbrellas
    1 / 10Kati Horna, Paraguas (Umbrellas), 1937, photograph, Kati Horna / Private Collection
  • Two naked boys looking up at a red star. Boy on left is taller and boy on right is shorter
    2 / 10Aurora Reyes, Niños y estrella (Boys and Star), 1938, oil on canvas, Héctor y Ernesto Godoy Lagunes Collection
  • One gallery wall with five paintings visible and one sculpture encased in glass in center of room
    3 / 10Gallery view
  • Abstract painting of tower with mostly yellow and orange colors
    4 / 10Cordelia Urueta, Torre de Agresión (Tower of Aggression), 1975, oil on canvas, Collection Pago en Especie, SHCP Recaudación 1979, (681 CUS)
  • Sculpture of woman holding naked child in her arms
    5 / 10Elizabeth Catlett, Madre e hijo (Mother and Child), n.d., bronze sculpture, Langdon and Isobel Neal Collection
  • Portrait of a woman in a white dress holding a child wearing white with a doll
    6 / 10Celia Calderón, La muñeca (The Doll), 1966, oil on canvas, Andrés Blaisten Collection
  • Sculpture of woman in seated position, with legs pulled up to the chest
    7 / 10Rosa Castillo, Mujer sentada (Seated woman), 1961, bronze sculpture, Ma. de Lourdes Castillo Collection
  • Two gallery walls visible with two sculptures encased in glass in center of gallery. Two paintings along left wall and one painting on right wall
    8 / 10Gallery view
  • Two gallery walls visible. Two paintings on right wall and one painting on left wall with artist description
    9 / 10Gallery view
  • Long and narrow picture of child staring off into the distance
    10 / 10Andrea Gómez, La niña de la basura (The Girl from the Trash), 2006, linocut, 2006.115

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