Miguel Covarrubias - mexican artist

Covarrubias’s caricature of himself as an Olmec.Jose Miguel Covarrubias (November 22, 1904 - Feb 4, 1957) was a Mexican artist and caricaturist. His works and celebrity cartoons have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly prominent to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld.

Covarrubias also did some amazing illustrations for The Heritage Press including Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Green Mansions, and Pearl Buck’s All Men Are Brothers. These editions are very required after by collectors. He also worked as an illustrator for W.C. Handy’s publications.

Covarrubias is also well-known for his analysis of pre-Colombian art of Mesoamerica, mainly that of the Olmec culture. His analysis of iconography presented a strong case that the Olmec predated the Classic Era years before this was confirmed by archaeology.

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