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Tag: Xoloitzcuintli

  • Diego Rivera and a Xoloitzcuintli Dog

     

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    Diego Rivera Holding a Dog by Guillermo Zamora, 1940s

    I gasped when I discovered this photo last week.  I yelped when I read who it was.

    Via the Florence Arquin papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

  • Frida Kahlo and Her Dogs by Gisèle Freund

     

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    Frida Kahlo and Her Dogs by Gisèle Freund, 1948

    This photo is part of one of the best collections of dog art I have ever seen.   Visit the blog Weimar: Art and Modernity and have a look.

    Hat tip to reader Gary Ellis for sending me the link.

    Happy Cinco de Mayo.

  • Evie the Xolo and Muse

     

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    Jewel Waldrip is a frequent commenter (thank you, Jewel), an artist, and the only Dog Art Today reader I know who owns a Xoloitzcuintli dog.  You may not be familiar with the name but you have seen the breed before in this photo on Frida Kahlo and her dogs: 

     

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    Frida Kahlo and her Itzcuintli dogs by Lola Alvarez Bravo, 1944.

     

    The Aztecs considered Xolos sacred because they believed these dogs were needed by their masters’ souls to help them safely through the underworld. Today, they are the national dogs of Mexico.

    Jewel is endlessly inspired by her Xolo, Evie.  Here are some of my favorite works: 

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    Coraline Evie

     

     

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    Obama Evie

     

     

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    Psychedelic Evie

     

    Visit Jewel's All About Evie flickr site to see more.

  • Frida Kahlo & Her Dogs

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    Frida Kahlo and her Xoloitzcuintli dogs. Photograph c. 1944 by Mexican photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo.

    Via Merry & Happy, a Korean website great dog art finds, including some of mine.