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Ceremonial, Quezaltenango
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Ceremonial, Quezaltenango

Artist/Maker (Guatemala, 1891-1984)
Date1950s
Mediumoffset print
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (45.1 x 33.7 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Terms
    Object number2006.7.8
    DescriptionA pioneer Modernist of Latin America, Carlos Mérida started the first pro-Indian art movement in the Americas, many years before his contemporaries Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, and the other Mexican muralists. Like Tamayo, Merida strove to fuse European Modernism with American subject matter. His folio of Guatemalan costume dates to the end of his initial figurative period, well before he became a major figure in the Surrealist and geometric traditions. The depiction portrays a woman in a traditional ceremonial costume from Quetzaltenango, she is surrounded by decorative designs and angel-like figures.
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    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Nebaj - Quiche
    Carlos Mérida
    1950s
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Laundry at Quezaltenango
    Eadweard Muybridge
    1875
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Almolonga, Quezaltenango
    Carlos Mérida
    1950s
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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    A Man of New Zealand and A Woman of New Zealand
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    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Washington Square
    Everett Shinn
    1931
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Dance Headpiece (Chi Wara)
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    Hunchback Figure
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    ca. 300 BCE-300 CE
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Guatemala Gangs
    Rodrigo Abd
    2003
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Femme turque
    Adelphoi Zangaki
    ca. 1860-1889 (printed 1992)
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