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Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line presents artwork that links Covarrubias' commercial art, scholarly publications, and studio practice, to demonstrate the cosmopolitan modernism of his life and work, which were deeply influenced by his life-long practice of moving between modern cities and sites remote from New York or Mexico City. It reveals his influential role as part of a global network of modernists, including Georgia O'Keeffe.
The friendship between Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) and Georgia O鈥橩eeffe (1887-1986) began in 1929 when both were guests at the home of Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, among a gathering of modernist artists and writers.  Though O鈥橩eeffe was a generation older than Covarrubias, they shared many professional as well as social experiences.  Both O鈥橩eeffe and Covarrubias were part of an international, intergenerational cluster of artists in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s, a group that formed the cornerstone of the emergent modernist aesthetic. Thus, their relationship is an enormously productive place to analyze the significance of the avant-garde circles of modernism, where their careers flourished as well as their friendship.
Although Covarrubias is best known for his lively caricatures of famous figures, which will be included in this exhibition, the primary purpose of Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line is to define the breadth and significance of Covarrubias鈥� contribution to the history of modern art. The exhibition brings together a selection of this prolific artist鈥檚 modernist drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, and illustrations from his own scholarly publications. He distilled the diversity of his experiences through the artistic force of his line-drawings, which in-turn express his modern individuality as an artist.