Twentieth-century Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera, collected and were strongly influenced by ancient West Mexican ceramics. In their attempts to portray the indigenous past of their nation in paintings and murals they included portraits of prehistoric men and women based on shaft-tomb figures. Art historian Barbara Braun suggests that, both directly and through the influence of other artists trained in Mexico, the stylized and dynamic forms of West Mexican ceramic animal figures inspired the work of artists at Walt Disney Studios starting in the 1930s!

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