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 surrealist painting in bold colors showing two human figures, one blue and one pink, facing each other in a bed. They are inside a bright yellow tent surrounded by creatures wearing white robes with black hoods. A variety of animals is in the tent too, and the night sky with bright stars can be seen in the background.

Leonora Carrington

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

Alfredo Castañeda

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

An abstract work on paper by Gunther Gerzso, in orange and beige tones. Abstract, rectangular shapes fill the center of the work.

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

Frida Kahlo

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 self-portrait of Jose Clemente Orozco rendered in grey and blue tones. The artist sternly stares at the viewer, and is wearing glasses and a toothbrush mustache.

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 Diego Rivera painting showing a seated mother tenderly holding a baby on her lap. A deep purple shawl is draped across her shoulders and the baby is swaddled in blue cloth.

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 pencil drawing of a seated woman knitting - a female figure is rising from her needles

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