Rufino Tamayo

Mexican painter and muralist, who was influenced by the European modernism of Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso as well as pre-Columbian art and Mexican folk art. He rejected the dogma of the muralist explosion after the Mexican Revolution in favor of an exploration of modernist styles, waiting until 1933 to paint his first mural.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995

Alternate Name: Tamayo, Rufino
Birth: 1899
Birth Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Death: 1991
Death Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Gender: male
Nationality: Mexican