Artists

Painting of the bust of a woman draped in a red shawl. Her face stares out at the viewer. Two other women flank her, wearing yellow and green shawls.

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Mixed media artwork with two panels. The right panel shows a curled fetus and the left shows an abstract composition

Frederic Amat

A painted still life of two wooden stools, a conch shell, and a wooden tray filled with eggs resting on a white pedestal. A Japanese painting with calligraphy hands on the wall behind the arrangement.

Claudio Bravo

A watercolor of a face with closed against set in a blue green background

Alfredo Castañeda

A delicate pencil portrait of a man in a suit seated with his hands on his lap

Julio Castellanos

A painting of a Mexican day of the dead altar. A table is decorated with candles and family photographs line the wall. An archway over the table is hung with bread and fruit and big yellow flowers.

Elena Climent

Pen and ink drawing of a Balinese dancer wearing a long tunic and a tall headdress, shown in six different poses

Miguel Covarrubias

Glass sculpture in grey and green tones of a double headed anteater

Isabel De Obaldía

A vibrantly colored watercolor of a woman lounging in a tropical forest while three other women dance

René d’Harnoncourt

Vertical painting with geometrical shapes in bright blues, green, yellow and orange

Gunther Gerzso

A sculpture made with welded bronze gears of varying sizes. The formation of the gears resembles a Catholic monstrance.

Mathias Goeritz

A watercolor in earth tones of two musicians and a little girl looking back at them

Guillermo Meza

A painting showing a bright red campfire on an orange ground, against a blue sky with clouds

María Izquierdo

A pencil drawing of a Greek drama mask wearing a headdress with curls

Frida Kahlo

A portrait by Wifredo Lam, painted in pastel tones, of a nude woman seated with her legs crossed and one hand raised to her face.

Wifredo Lam

A surrealist sketch of a scene in a ballet. Dancing figures surround a tree, and in the background is a building with two conical roofs and a balcony, from which figures look down on the scene below.

Roberto Matta

An abstract artwork featuring blue and red vertical shapes against a gold background

Carlos Mérida

A painting of two nude female figures in an abstract landscape rendered in earth tones with a blue sky.

Armando Morales

A graphite drawing of two angels kissing

Rodolfo Morales

A painting in neutral tones of an Aztec mask lying horizontally on the ground. The mask fills the composition. There are two cuts through the mask, in the forehead and cheek, and a rope of jade beads falls in the gash along the cheek.

José Clemente Orozco

A stylized painted portrait of a woman's face, wearing red lipstick and a blue hat with a veil

Carlos Orozco Romero

A surrealist painting in green and grey tones with black lines and shapes throughout the canvas

Wolfgang Paalen

A mixed media drawing on newsprint showing a workshop of Mexican pottery makers, all dressed in white clothes with sombreros

Alfredo Ramos Martínez

A painting by Diego Rivera of a little boy, wearing a straw hat, yellow shirt, and blue knee length pants, holding a bright green ball

Diego Rivera

A colored pencil drawing of a green melon

San Aviles

A pencil drawing of two skeletal mermaids underneath a tree. One is playing a string instrument and the other gazes at a cherub in the sky.

Juan Soriano

A watercolor in earth tones by Rufino Tamayo of a woman, shown from the back, wearing a full skirt and Mexican rebozo. Her hair is in a high bun and she is walking down a corridor.

Rufino Tamayo

A watercolor in gray, blue and beige hues showing pairs of birds holding grasshoppers in their beaks

Francisco Toledo

A Papier-mâché sculpture showing four seated figures with their eyes closed. The two men wear old fashioned gray suits and have leaves on their heads. One woman has a bright blue dress with red yarn hair, and the other has a white dress with pink dots and black yarn hair.

Remedios Varo

A square watercolor in orange, yellow, and purple tones of a face built out of squares and rectangles of color. They eyes are green ovals with black lines

Alejandro Xul Solar

A drawing of Christ tied with rope to a waist high red column. The drawing is framed in a black shadowbox with an arch of multicolored flowers along the bottom.

Nahum B. Zenil