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Rosenthal a fellowship in 1931 to do creative work in painting in Mexico, where she was to live for two years beginning in August that year. Thereafter she made yearly trips to the country, residing in small villages during the summer months. The Guggenheim Foundation awarded her a second
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portfolios are arranged around themes such as transportation, costumes, and animal motifs. The series signaled her study of ethnographic or 'primitive' art and culture and were instrumental in winning her two
Guggenheim awards to work in Mexico. The portfolios helped introduce new aesthetics to
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in search of indigenous peoples. Over several decades beginning in the 1930s, Rosenthal made hundreds of sketches in charcoal and pastel depicting the everyday life and domestic activities of Indian and mestizo peasant culture, which she later used to create large-scale studio paintings.
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in Paris, and then went on a sketching trip to Berlin, Rome, and Munich, staying throughout 1921 and 1922. Following her
European tour, she married Charles “Jack” Charash, a press agent, theatrical manager, dramatist, and co-founder of the Anglo-Jewish Theatre, a unit of the
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Rosenthal produced a large body of work over a six-decade career. Her Depression-era American Scene paintings focusing on Mexican life and culture were nationally respected and covered by major art publications and popular magazines such as
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In the late 1920s, Rosenthal published a series of portfolios featuring design motifs drawn from the art and artifacts of an international array of museum collections. The
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Rosenthal was a lifelong art instructor and educator, having earned a degree in teaching from Los
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Rosenthal and Dunlap traveled to Taos, New Mexico, in 1917. There, they briefly resided and exhibited alongside the leading
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fellowship for further work in Mexico in 1936. Rosenthal moved permanently to Mexico in 1957, and died in the city of
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design, and were acclaimed as useful resources for professional designers and as teaching tools for art instructors.
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in 1913. She taught painting and drawing in
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and others in the inaugural exhibition in Santa Fe's new Fine Arts Museum. Rosenthal exhibited in the
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spring exhibitions at the Los Angeles Museum in 1917 and 1919, showing
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