La Inaguración

NamePainting

Maker Luis Joaquin Rodriguez Arias (Cuban)

Date2012

Place madeMella, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Caribbean

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionsincluding frame: 11 13/16 × 17 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (30 × 44.5 × 5 cm)
painting only: 10 5/8 × 16 1/8 × 1 3/16 in. (27 × 41 × 3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Stephen Luckman, A.2020.41.1

Object numberA.2020.41.1

ProvenancePurchased from artist by Peggy Gaustad; purchased from Gaustad by Julie Payne. Collected by the late Julie Payne and being offered by her widower, Steve Luckman. Payne was the daughter of early Hollywood actors Anne Shirley and John Howard Payne.

DescriptionDepicts blue sky with clouds behind green trees and large house with outbuildings. In the yard in front of house is a table on which people are placing food and a pit with a animal roasting on a spit. Two horses stand next to the fence in dividing the yard from the street.