Object Notes

In 1951, Alicia Penalba created her first abstract sculpture, abandoning figural representation and her previous body of work. This bronze is representative of Penalba’s mature style, characterized by harmonious balance, upward growth, and rhythmic, gestural lines.

Following models painted by members of the international avant-garde, Rufino Tamayo treats his female nudes in neither a picturesque nor blatantly erotic manner. In this painting of three young women, the artist uses strong linear definition, juxtaposed with dramatic shifts in color blocking, in order to capture the movement and musculature of women jumping rope.

The Wake is an early painting by the Italian-Uruguayan Jorge Damiani, whose inclusion in the Dallas Museum of Fine Art’s South American Art Today in 1959 launched his career in the United States.