Journal of Alta California

Finding Energy in Rufino Tamayo’s Simple Moment

hat’s me standing at my kitchen table.” That’s what I told myself when I first encountered , by Rufino Tamayo, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in January 2020. The woodblock print is an early work, made by Tamayo in the late

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