DETAILS
- Artist
- Miguel Covarrubias
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.9 × 24 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 37.7 × 28.1 cm (14 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Mexico
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro
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THE ARTIST
Miguel Covarrubias
Miguel Covarrubias was a Mexican polymath, celebrated for his vibrant caricatures of the Jazz Age, insightful ethnological studies, and monumental Pacific-themed murals.
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