The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood, 1918-2000

by Susie Kalil

Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised in Houston, Dorothy Hood won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1930s, then worked as a model in New York to earn money for classes at the Art Students League. On a whim, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 and ended up staying for more than twenty years.

Hood was front and center at the cultural, political, and social crossroads of Mexico and Latin America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623494192
• ISBN13: 9781623494193
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.3" x 11.2"