ID: 700009256 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009256	Record Type: Movable Work
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Man and Woman; or, Natives with Maguey (print (visual work); Rufino Tamayo (Mexican painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 18...; 1925; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 30.95.1)

Note: This print is one of eight that Tamayo made between 1925 and 1928 in New York, where they were sold by Weyhe Gallery. Set in a mountainous landscape, an Indian man and woman face each other. Maguey plants, a type of agave, grow in the background. They are a symbol of Mexican culture, and the sugars they produce are used for making tequila.

Titles:

Man and Woman; or, Natives with Maguey (preferred,C,U,English,U,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

print (visual work) [300041273] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

graphic arts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1925

Creator Display:

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1899-1991) [preferred]

artist Tamayo, Rufino (Mexican painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1899-1991) [500024331]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 30.95.1

Credit Line: Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1930

Display Materials: woodcut

	woodcuts (prints) [300041405]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints)

	woodcut (process) [300053296]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes)

Dimensions: sheet: 12 3/16 × 12 1/16 inches (31 × 30.6 cm); image: 9 7/8 × 9 15/16 inches (25.1 × 25.2 cm)

Cultures:

Mexican (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred,aboutness)

botanical (aboutness)

Specific Subjects:

	man (male human) [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	woman (female human) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	farmers (people in agriculture) [300025607]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>) (AAT)

	Maguey henequén (species) [300375514]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Liliopsida (class), Asparagales (order), Agavaceae (family), Agave (genus)) (AAT)

Provenance: Carl Zigrosser, American; Donor: Carl Zigrosser, American

Inscriptions: Signed in pencil lower right 'Rufino Tamayo'

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Man and Woman; or, Natives with Maguey	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 06 April 2017
	........ McDonald, Revolution on Paper (2009) 96
	........ Pereda, Rufino Tamayo (2004) 44

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 06 April 2017

....................... Pereda, Rufino Tamayo (2004) 44

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) transcribed, accessed 29 May 2018
	..... McDonald, Revolution on Paper (2009) 96