Artist: Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957)
Nationality: Mexican
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Before moving to Paris in 1911, Diego Rivera studied in Mexico City and Madrid. After meeting Picasso, Rivera turned Cubist, working under the influence of Juan Gris and Georges Braque. After studying Renaissance frescoes on a tour of Italy, he returned to Mexico to paint large murals on city buildings that were narratives of the history of and life in the country. Rivera also created similar murals in the United States with social messages. All of his work implemented Aztec and Byzantine symbols.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Diego Rivera Self-portrait Lithograph 1930
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Diego Rivera Study of Hands Graphite 1921
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Diego Rivera Two Women and a Child oil on canvas 1926
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Diego Rivera Zapata Lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1932
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Diego Rivera Sleeping Family Lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1932
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Diego Rivera Market Lithograph over color linoleum block 1930
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Diego Rivera Fruits of Labor Lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1932
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Diego Rivera Open Air School Lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1932
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Diego Rivera Woman's Head Black chalk on wove paper 1926
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Diego Rivera Christ black chalk over graphite on wove paper 1926
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Diego Rivera A Good Load brush and black ink over graphite on laid paper 1925
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Diego Rivera Mexican Woman with Corn (Girl Selling Corn) Black chalk on laid paper 1926
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Huicholes, Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1951, Charcoal on canvas
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The Dream (Sueño), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1932, Lithograph
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Seated Peasants with Dog, Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , Pencil
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Diego Rivera Figure Study for Earth in the fresco,The Oppressed Earth, in the Agricultural School at Chapingo Graphite on Arches Canson and Montgolfier laid paper 1926
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The Boy with the Taco (El Niño del taco), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1932, Lithograph
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Golgotha (Golgota), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1926, Pencil
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Untitled (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1936, Charcoal and ink on paper
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Man with Hat (Hombre con sombrero), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , no date, Pencil on paper
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Seated Boy with Basket of Vegetables, Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , Pencil
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Untitled (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1931, Watercolor on paper
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Untitled (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1931, Watercolor on paper
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Factory (Fábrica), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1956, Watercolor on paper
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Zapata and His Men (Zapata y sus hombres), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1932, Lithograph
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Sunset (Acapulco) (Atardecer [Acapulco]), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1956, Oil on board
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Women Washing (Lavanderas), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1925, Charcoal on paper
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Untitled (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , circa 1930s, Pencil on paper
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Untitled, (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Flower Day (Día de Flores), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1925, Oil on canvas
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Untitled (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1936, Watercolor on handmade paper
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Landscape (Paisaje), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1927, Watercolor and pencil on paper
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The Rural Teacher (La Maestra Rural), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1932, Lithograph
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Huts (Chozas), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , circa 1929, Oil on canvas mounted on board
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Porfirio Díaz, Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1939, Charcoal on thin tracing paper
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Cargador de Petate (Petate Bearer), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1943, Watercolor on paper
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Flower Woman (Vendedora de flores), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1954, Watercolor on paper
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Diego Rivera Portrait of Arthur Brown, Jr. (A study for the fresco at the California School of Fine Arts , San Francisco, now the San Francisco Art Institute) red and black chalk on Ingres d*Arches laid paper 1931
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Still Life with Bread and Fruit (Naturaleza muerta con pan y fruta), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1917, Oil on canvas
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Portrait of John Dunbar (Retrato de John Dunbar), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1931, Oil on canvas
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Study for a Mural (Estudio para mural), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1931, Pencil on paper
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Pancho Villa, Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1937, Charcoal on thin tracing paper
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Female Nude (Desnudo femenino), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1939, Gouache on handmade paper
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Two Female Vendors (Dos vendedoras), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , circa 1930, Watercolor on handmade paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , no date, Pencil on paper
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Fruits of the Tree of Life (Frutos del árbol de la vida), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1932, Lithograph
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Untitled (Sin título), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1934, Pencil on mulberry paper
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Guarache Sale (Vendedora de huaraches), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1936, Watercolor on mulberry paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Watercolor on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Watercolor on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper
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Drawing from a Sketchbook (Bosquejo de un cuaderno de dibujos), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , 1923-1925, Pencil on paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Helsinki City Art Museum's Tennis Palace galleries: Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was fond of telling stories and some of them have become legends about his own life. However, it is known that in his youth Rivera was a member of the circle of artists in Montparnasse in Paris, together with Picasso and other...
Chicano Humanities and Arts Council: New Colors / Nuevos Colores
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National Gallery of Australia: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
Celebrated by the Surrealists in her own lifetime, Kahlo has attained cult-like status both for her extraordinary art and her tempestuous love-life with husband Diego Ri...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) is not only the most outstanding of contemporary Mexican painters, an artist of unequaled vastness of conception; he is also the most prolific. He stands as the example of a painter who, having assimilated and utilized ...
Museum of Fine Art, Houston: Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution

More than 90 paintings and drawings in a variety of media, including paintings rarely or never exhibited in the United States, are being lent by museums and ...
Seattle Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
The exhibition will focus on three broad categories of works made between the mid-1910s and the mid-1960s. First, the collection includes a large number of portraits, many of which depict the Gelmans themselves, attesting to the personal relations...
Phoenix Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art
Jacques believed that the collector was not the owner of the work but was instead its guardian, a simple link in the human chain which allows the work to survive the long odyssey from the studio to the museum.
- Pierre Schneider ...
Detroit Institute of Art: A Century of Collecting 1900-2000: Drawings from the DIA Collection
Artists from the past through the present are featured including Michelangelo, Cezanne, and Degas as well as Charles Demuth, Diego Rivera, and Ed Ruscha....
San Diego Museum of Art: Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
For more than 2000 years, portraits have served many purposes in Latin America: preserving the memory of the deceased; bolstering the social standing of the aristocracy; marking the deeds of the powerful and heroic; advancing the careers of poli...
City Gallery: VIVA LA VIDA - Frida KAHLO, Diego RIVERA and MEXICAN MODERNISM
Frida and Diego on their wedding day… demonstrating together… meeting art patrons in America… relaxing at home with their pets… embracing tenderly at the kitchen table….The 80 photographs in Frida y Diego, Amores y Desamores (‘Love and Disaffecti...
Phoenix Art Museum: Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950
Mexico and Modern Printmaking is an exciting display of nearly 150 important lithographs, etchings and woodcuts by 40 artists who came to define a new brand of Modernism, native to Mexico – such as Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo, Kahlo, Dr....
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in 1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec, M...
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Today, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of twentieth-century Mexican art is widely regarded as the world’s most significant private holding of its kind. Dating from the 1910s to the 1990s, the 80-...
Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission: Ben Shahn: Summer of 1938
Ben Shahn was born in Russia in 1898 in a socialist Jewish family. They fled the czarist regime in ...
Christie's Auction House: The Indestructible, Unfathomable and Timeless World of Latin American Art
The London sale will consist of eight dramatic paintings featuring the history of the Mexican Conquest, which are to be auctioned as part of Christie’s Old Master Pictures sale on December 17. Considered to be the most important Colonial paintings ev...
Museo Casa de Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul): Fifty Years After Her Death Frida Continues to Dazzle Art World   
Meanwhile, London’s famed Tate Modern Museum, beginning June 9 through Oct.9, will stage Britain’s first major respective of her work with 70 paintings as well as watercolors and drawings. In New York, there she is again, when El Mus...
Yale School of Art, Holcombe T. Green Jr. Gallery: Intersections/ Intersecciones: An Exhibition of Cuban Artists
Artists participating in this show are Giovanni Bosch, Christian Curiel, Florencio Gelabert, Coco Fusco, Marco Lau, Leonel Matheu, Julio Armando Mendoza, Maritza Molina, Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui, Chantal Perez, Hugo Perez, Jesus Rivera and Leandro So...
Farrell Fischoff Gallery: DIGITAL ART: 2006 - Prints · Video · Audio
Digital Prints: Arlene Becker, a participant in last year's Digital Art 4 show, returns to Farrell Fischoff Gallery with new photo-based works. Her extensive European travels last year have expanded her visual materials. Lunch with Picasso ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
National Museum of Fine Arts: From Picasso to Keith Haring
The artworks, mostly donated by collectors and artists before and after the Revolution, includes a room dedicated to the US art from the Reagan era, which were donated in 1984 by 50 american artists. It contains among others, an outstanding piece ...
Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery: R. Kenton Nelson: Trouble
Informed by an Americana influenced by the WPA and its champions as well as his great uncle, Roberto Montenegro, the Mexican Muralist who was a contemporary of Rivera, Orozco and others, R. Kenton Nelson's work implies a story line that we, the vi...
Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennis Palace: TINA MODOTTI: The Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti's career as a photographer began in Mexico in the 1920s. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance, when artists explored Mexico's Indian cultures and traditions in search of an authentic and original Mexican identity. ...
Concourse Gallery: Latino Arts/OHIO 2008
All present and participating Latino Arts/OHIO 2008 artists will share their experiences, ideas, creativity through a forum discussion to synthesize the arts experience. Viewers will be able to enjoy the exhibit through multiple media including a ...
California Historical Society: At Work: The Art Of California Labor
The first overview of labor themes in California art over the last century, AT WORK includes work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Pirkle Jones, and Otto Hagel, painters Hung Liu and Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and ...
Viveza Gallery: Codex Specialis: Works by Rebecca Woodhouse
At age 16, Woodhouse realized her passion to combine art with intriguing writings. Today she masterfully melds the two genres as she paints words that blend and transform into color, line and texture. A palimpsest is writing material ˜in thi...
Dallas Museum of Art: Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1950 features more than 50 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by some of Mexico’s most famous artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and ...
Moderna Museet: Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance shows Modotti's photography between 1923 and 1930 when she was working in Mexico. During the 1920s, together with her A...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Louise Nevelson
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. I don’t think you can touch a thing that cannot be rehabilitated into another life. And once I gave the whole world life in that sense I co...
San Diego Museum of Art: José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934
The Museum is delighted to be able to present such a significant exhibition of works by Orozco who, along with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, is counted among the most important Mexican artists of the twentieth century. Wit...
el museo del barrio: 2002 (S) Files, the biennial of El Museo del Barrio
The exhibition is co-curated by Deborah Cullen, Curator, and Victoria Noorthoorn, Curator of Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Colección Costanini, Buenos Aires . Works include traditional media, such as painting, drawing, sculptural works,...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Vibrant Colours and the Passion of Mexican Modern Art
For the past seventy-five years, the understanding and appreciation of Mexican art have focussed primarily on the murals, particularly those by Los Tres Grandes: Diego Rivera, ...
Museum of Fine Arts: Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20 th Century
Mexican Modernism is known the world over for its beauty -vibrant colors and simple imagery -and its bold socio-political commentary. Responding to a wide gap between rich and poor, Spanish- and indigenous-descent, these artists used their talents...
Howell Green Fine Art Gallery: David Rosen: Shakespeare on Canvas
Born in Toronto, Canada in 1912, Rosen studied at Cooper Union Art School in New York City from 1930 to 1933. In 1936, he was employed in the pre-war Federal Arts Project in New York City where he worked in the Mural Division until 1941. During th...
Fraser Gallery: Passion for Frida: 27 Years of Frida Kahlo Artwork
In 1975 my parents took their first vacation ever, at least in my memory. As Cuban exiles, the American tradition of yearly vacations was as removed from their routine as the Cuban tradition of Nochebuena is from American Christmas holiday customs...
Museo de la Isla de Cozumel: Dulce y Amargo: Works by Jackie Sleper
Jackie Sl eper has always been fascinated by Mexico and it's artist Frida Kahlo, for whom she has a profound admiration. In 2005, she received an invitation from Matty Roca, art historian and President of the Council for Arts and Culture in Cancun...
Tacoma Art Museum: Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon
Kahlo’s life story was portrayed on film by her father, her husband, her lovers, and her friends, as well as prominent photojournalists and photographers of the time. At an early age, she became aware of the beauty and magic of photography, as bot...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Gisele Freund: The World And My Camera
Gisèle Freund was born into an upper middle-class German Jewish family. She studied sociology at the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research) in Frankfurt under Adorno and Manheim, where she attended left-wing student meetings a...
Walker Art Center: Alice Neel: Portraits of People and Places
Born in suburban Philadelphia, Neel (1900-1984) led a rich and colorful life filled with friends, lovers, family, fellow artists, and a strong sense of community and social activism. She became a painter at a time ...
American Art Dealers Association (ADAA): 16th Annual Exhibition to be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory
This year The Art Show highlights a group of solo-shows that are ambitious and not to be missed. Continuing their tradition of showing a single artist at The Art Show for the last several years, PaceWildenstein will present recent works by the Abs...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...

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Diego Rivera Web Museum
Diego Rivera Online
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Diego Rivera Web Museum: Biography
American Masters . Diego Rivera | PBS
Diego Rivera. Una colección virtual.
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The Diego Rivera Mural Project
Rivera Photo Archive; Diego Rivera at the DIA
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