Rosa Rolanda
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Rolanda was born in [[Azusa, California]], in 1895. Her father, Henry Charles Cowan, was an engineer and her mother, Guadalupe Ruelas, was of Mexican descent.{{Cite web|url=http://soodiebeasley.com/happy-birthday-rosa-rolanda-1895-1970/|title=Happy Birthday Rosa Rolanda (1895-1970) – Soodie Beasley Appraisals LLC|date=6 September 2017 }} |
Rolanda was born in [[Azusa, California]], in 1895. Her father, Henry Charles Cowan, was an engineer and her mother, Guadalupe Ruelas, was of Mexican descent.{{Cite web|url=http://soodiebeasley.com/happy-birthday-rosa-rolanda-1895-1970/|title=Happy Birthday Rosa Rolanda (1895-1970) – Soodie Beasley Appraisals LLC|date=6 September 2017 }} |
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Rolanda began her artistic career in New York in 1916, as a celebrated dancer in Broadway [[revues|revues]]. |
Rolanda began her artistic career in New York in 1916, as a celebrated dancer in Broadway [[revues|revues]]. Rolanda's debut performance was to [[Lee Shubert|Lee Shubert's]] ''Over the Top,'' which sparked a continued dance career throughout the 1920s. After a tour in Europe with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]] dance troupe, Rolanda performed in the musical ''Around the Town.'' |
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Soon after, while working on ''[[The Garrick Gaieties]],'' Rolanda met [[Miguel Covarrubias]] on set.{{Cite book |last=Michael 'Miguel' Bernal |first=Bernal |title=Golden Age of the Spanish Dance |date=2020 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-1-716-93297-7 |oclc=1259427405}} They began a romantic relationship in 1924, and in the following year the couple traveled to Mexico, where Rolanda began photography. Albums of her images were published in Covarrubias's best-selling books ''Island of Bali'' (1938) {{cite encyclopedia|last=Williams|first=Adriana|title=Covarrubias, Miguel (1904–1957)|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture|editor1-first=Jay|editor1-last=Kinsbruner|editor2-first=Erick D.|editor2-last=Langer|edition=2nd|volume=2|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|year=2008|pages=648–650|isbn=978-0-684-31442-6}} and ''Mexico South: Isthmus of Tehuantepec'' (1946), and her work was also featured in the "Ameridinian" issue of [[Wolfgang Paalen]]'s journal ''[[DYN (magazine)|DYN]]'', published in 1943. During the late 1920s or early 1930s, Rolanda experimented with [[photogram]]s, creating significant series of [[surrealist]] self-portraits that may have been influenced by [[Man Ray]], who photographed Rolanda in Paris in 1923.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/SurrealistEssay.pdf|title=Surrealism and Women Artists - LACMA}} |
Soon after, while working on ''[[The Garrick Gaieties]],'' Rolanda met [[Miguel Covarrubias]] on set.{{Cite book |last=Michael 'Miguel' Bernal |first=Bernal |title=Golden Age of the Spanish Dance |date=2020 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-1-716-93297-7 |oclc=1259427405}} They began a romantic relationship in 1924, and in the following year the couple traveled to Mexico, where Rolanda began photography. Albums of her images were published in Covarrubias's best-selling books ''Island of Bali'' (1938) {{cite encyclopedia|last=Williams|first=Adriana|title=Covarrubias, Miguel (1904–1957)|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture|editor1-first=Jay|editor1-last=Kinsbruner|editor2-first=Erick D.|editor2-last=Langer|edition=2nd|volume=2|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|year=2008|pages=648–650|isbn=978-0-684-31442-6}} and ''Mexico South: Isthmus of Tehuantepec'' (1946), and her work was also featured in the "Ameridinian" issue of [[Wolfgang Paalen]]'s journal ''[[DYN (magazine)|DYN]]'', published in 1943. During the late 1920s or early 1930s, Rolanda experimented with [[photogram]]s, creating significant series of [[surrealist]] self-portraits that may have been influenced by [[Man Ray]], who photographed Rolanda in Paris in 1923.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/SurrealistEssay.pdf|title=Surrealism and Women Artists - LACMA}} |
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