Acrobatas
Carlos Mérida, Guatemalan (active in Mexico), 1891 - 1985
1931
Gouache on paper
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 11 1/4 in. (32.7 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.47
Geography
Place Made: Guatemala, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower center: Carlos Merida 1931
Exhibition History
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-July 11, 1976.
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2018, Carlos Merida, From Mexico to Montmartre: 1912-1943, Marie-Therese (Motti) Cummings, Class of 2018, Levinson Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.mcummings.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Provenance
Mrs. Frances Flynn Paine (1895-1980); sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, August 18, 1932; given to present collection, 1935.
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