Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquainted with the facts of my husband's overdrawn checks-and cannot blame those involved-as I understand he had an opportunity to make good. ' I, of course, did not know Harold at that time-I was with my show in Mexico where I met him in November...
...razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with plumes and ornaments, massive, configured in snake-like coils and curves. Baltimore's show includes many of the best-preserved Maya figures of gods and warriors, huge-nosed and somnolent; often squashed into semi-abstract patterns...
Prodigal Son. In the winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight...
...geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated, inventive, winning, to many a critic...
Like Mexican oil (see p. 61), Mexican art is a commodity in which U. S. citizens take considerable interest. Those who want to get oil out of Mexico are having a tougher & tougher time. Those who want to see or buy Mexican art are having it easier & easier. In San Francisco, Detroit, Manhattan and Hanover, N. H., distinguished murals have been painted by Artists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Into Mexico City, where there are more & better Mexican paintings, the Inter-American Highway running south from Laredo, Tex., has piped thousands of U. S. tourists since its opening...