Artists

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 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

A geometric abstract painting in blue, green, red, and black tones

Gunther Gerzso

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

Mathias Goeritz

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 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 painting by Diego Rivera of two workers lying facedown in bright green grass. Their round yellow hats cover their heads, and a large reddish brown tree trunk rises behind them.

Diego Rivera

A colored pencil drawing of a green melon

San Aviles

Portrait of Demetrio Vallejo wearing a black cap with a pen under his ear

Francisco Toledo

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