Rosa Rolanda (Rosemonde Cowan; Rose Rolando; Mrs. Miguel Covarrubias; September 6, 1895 – March 25, 1970) was an American multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer.
After a tour in Europe with the Ziegfeld Follies dance troupe, Rolanda performed in the musical Around the Town.
[2] She became involved with the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias in 1924, and in the following year the couple traveled to Mexico, where Rolanda began to take photographs.
The majority of Rolanda's canvases depict colorful, folkloric scenes of children and festivals, portraits of friends such as the movie actresses Dolores del Río and María Félix, and self-portraits.
Rolanda and Covarrubias married in 1930,[3] and by 1935 they had permanently settled into his family home in Tizapan El Alto, close to Mexico City.