Woman from Tehuantepec – (Rosemonde Cowan, Rose Rolando, Mrs. Miguel Covarrubias) Previous Next


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Date: 1945

Technique: Watercolor

Many Mexican artists active in the first decades of the twentieth century portrayed Tehuana women from Oaxaca, as well as women from other regions, wearing traditional Indigenous attire, which operated as a symbol of national identity. Diego Rivera painted many such images for, among other projects, the murals at the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Mexico City (1923–1928). This painting by Miguel Covarrubias also champions Mexicanness, but in the framework of anthropological research on Zapotec culture. The figure in

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