Artist

Rufino Tamayo

Portrait of Rufino Tamayo

Mexican, 1899–1990

Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican Mexican Muralism artist. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Rufino Tamayo was born in Oaxaca de Juárez.

Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences.

Collections represented

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