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Modotti, Tina
American (b. Italy, 1896-1942)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Piņatas

ca. 1926
gelatin silver print
9.9 x 7.4 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 23292
74:0061:0172

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 54.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Tina Modotti: Photographs", US, PA, Philadelphia - November 26, 1995.//
"Modernists in New Mexico", US, CT, Stamford September 27 - December 27, 1996.//
"Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "This I rather like - I went back one day and (lined out) intended to work more carefully but most of the pinatas were gone." "X"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. Published title and date from --Tina Modotti: Photographs--. "Modotti photographed several images of piņatas. They were part of a larger series of folk art commissioned by publisher Frances Toor for her art and culture magazine, --Mexican Folkways--. A bilingual publication, --Mexican Folkways-- boasted many of Mexico's most eminent artists and writers as contributors and editors, including Dr. Atl, Anita Brenner, Jean Charlot and Diego Rivera. In 1927, Modotti became a contributing editor of the magazine in recognition of her growing reputation as an important photographer of Mexican culture. Modotti penned her feelings, often her dissatisfaction with a photograph, on the reverse side. This work is no exception. She wrote to Weston, 'This I rather like - I went back one day and intended to work more carefully but most of the piņatas were gone.'" [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECT: study, pinatas

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