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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1934
1934.01 (estate: 392)
Locomotora con casa constructiva
1934
Oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 23 3/16 in. (71.3 x 59 cm)
Signed lower left: J.TG; Dated lower right: 34
Exhibitions
Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes, Montevideo, 3a. Exposición arte constructiva, July 1935.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Pintura Panamericana 1915–1945, January–May 1986.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, March 3–November 4, 2001, no. 60, ill., p. 230.
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, Geo-Metrías, Abstracción Geométrica Latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros, July 3–October 25, 2003, ill., p. 69. Traveled to: Museo del Arte Latinoamerica de Buenos Aires (MALBA), March 14–May 19, 2003.
Tamanaco Intercontinental, Caracas, FERIA IBEROAMERICANA DE ARTE, July 6–11, 2005, ill., p. 57.
The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collections, February 20–April 22, 2007. Traveled to: Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York, September 12–December 8, 2007.
Newark Museum, New Jersey, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America: 1920s-50s, February 17–May 23, 2010. (Newark Museum 2010), ill., p. 19, plate 3. Traveled to: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 26–September 5, 2010.
Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, ¿Qué es el arte moderno para ti?, February 17–May 15, 2011.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, La invención concreta: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, January 22–September 16, 2013, ill., p. 155.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 147. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Concrete Matters, February 24–March 13, 2018.
Published References
Hughes, Robert. "Escaping the Provincial Trap, South America's 20th century abstractionists found a way to be local - and universal." TIME 158 (10) (2001), p. 85.
Monsalve, Yasmin. "Arte Latinoamericano seduce a Harvard." El Universal (Caracas), March 18, 2001.
MacAdam, Alfred. "Driven to Abstraction." ARTnews (March 2010).
Cotter, Holland. "History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas." The New York Times, February 19, 2010, ill. C1.
Record last updated October 21, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "Locomotora con casa constructiva, 1934 (1934.01)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1412 (accessed on September 15, 2025).