Rufino Tamayo Works Online
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Original works by Rufino Tamayo available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (in Spanish) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works online when last checked
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Heavenly Bodies, 1946
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Women of Tehuantepec, 1939
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Fumador, 1949
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Figura Blanca Desnuda, 1950
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Cabeza
Crocker Art Museum, California
Laughing Woman, 1950
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Hombre con Baston (Man with Stick)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #32
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Uomini, 1958
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
The Painter, 1960
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Dos Personajes Atacados Por Perros (Two People Attacked By Dogs), 1983
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
L'homme devant l'infini, 1950
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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San Diego Museum of Art, California
The Somnambulist, 1954
Rufino Tamayo at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Virtual Museum of Canada
Pátzcuaro, 1921
Virtual Museum of Canada
Paisaje con rocas, 1925
Virtual Museum of Canada
Las músicas dormidas, 1950
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 500
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Rufino Tamayo in the Artchive
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Arte Latinoamericano
Mujer con los brazos en alto, 1983
El Hombre de la Flor, 1989
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
2 works online when last checked
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
El Hombre, 1978
Time Magazine Cover Archive
Jeanne Moreau, 1965
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Rufino Tamayo 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- "A new exhibition is helping to put the bold, color-drenched works of the great Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo in the forefront of collectors' minds"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"Rufino Tamayo Color Lithograph, ca.1975"
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