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MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS
THE NEW PHYSICS (Einstein) | |
THE JAPANESE single 1942 | |
THAT EVENING SUN GOES DOWN (radio stars) May 1938 |
Henry Pitz, American Artist article January 1948 |
VANITY FAIR covers |
VANITY FAIR caricatures |
Covarrubias (1904-1957) was better known as a contributor of refined, sharp and linear caricatures to Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. It is surprising he did not do more work for FORTUNE.His double page supplement commissioned for a feature on the development of American radio is a pip. He was already successful as a caricaturist in his native Mexico before coming to work in New York in 1923. He was later active as an archaologiost and writer about Meso-American culture
From a notice published by the University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center celebrating the centennial of Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias's birth with a commemorative exhibition, Miguel Covarrubias: A Certain Clairvoyance from Oct. 19 through April 24, 2005, in the Ransom Center Galleries.
There is a large collection of his work at the Mexican Museum, San Francisco. |
photograph by Nicolas Muray
at the time of his work for FORTUNE
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