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| Miguel
Covarrubias 1904 - 1957 |
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| Miguel
Covarrubias published his first illustration in 1920. By the time
he came to New York his drawings were already widely published in
Mexico, Cuba and South and Central America. He studied with Mexico's
leading critic and poet Josˇ Juan Tablada. His trip to New York was
sponsored by the Mexican government and Tablada, who was already in
NY, acted as a liason between Mexico and the US for the newly arrived
Covarrubias. In 1924 Vanity Fair published six of his caricatures
and started an association that lasted until the magazine ceased publication
in 1936. In 1926 he went to Paris and studied for the next year and
a half. In 1930 he was awarded the Art Directors Club Medal in painting
and drawing and in 1933 his work was shown at the Guggenheim and the
Whitney Museum of American Art. That same year he received a Guggenheim
Fellowship for creative work in painting in the Dutch West Indies
(Bali). His work was published in Vogue after the demise of Vanity
Fair and was used for several book jackets for Alfred A. Knopf. In
1940 he was awarded another Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book
on the culture of Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He returned to Mexico in
1942 and began teaching at the School of Anthroplogy. |
Issues: December 1936 |
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