Burial of a Veteran
1936 · Oil on canvas
23 x 32 1/2" (58.4 x 82.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Mario Urteaga
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PaintingExpressionismStreet Art
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None documented
4
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1
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5
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- • Expressionism
- • Street Art
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Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947�1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943
About
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Mario Urteaga was a Peruvian painter and muralist who depicted Andean rural life and indigenous communities with meticulous attention to costume, gesture, and landscape. Working primarily in oil on canvas during the early twentieth century, he rendered ethnographic detail without sentimentality, treating his subjects as integral to the visual and social fabric of the Andes. His work participated in a broader generational turn toward indigenous subject matter among Peruvian artists, anchoring modernist formal concerns to the specificity of regional life and material culture.
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Museum of Modern Art
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