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: (100)
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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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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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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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Diego Rivera - The Weaver 1936 tempera and oil on c The Art Institute of Chicago Mexican
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Diego Rivera - Montserrat 1911 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Mexican
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Diego Rivera - Two Women 1914 Oil on Canvas Arkansas Arts Center Mexican
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Diego M. Rivera - Edsel B. Ford 1932 oil on canvas, mount The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Diego Rivera - Agrarian Leader Zapata 1931 fresco The Museum of Modern Art Mexican
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Diego Rivera - No. 9, Nature Morte Espagnole 1915 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Mexican
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Diego Rivera - Profile of an Indian Woman with Lilacs 1938 charcoal and pastel Milwaukee Art Museum Mexican
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Diego Rivera - Jacques Lipchitz (Portrait of a Young Man) 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Mexican
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Gustavo Ramos Rivera Series IV-J Color monoprint 1981
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Michel Sittow - Portrait of Diego de Guevara c. 1515-1518 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Netherlandish
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Jose de Rivera - Black, Yellow, Red 1942 aluminum National Gallery of Art American
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Streeter Blair - Meadow Lark Ranch- San Diego County 1951 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Magda Santonastasio Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) book with six color etchings and poems by the artist 1987
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Magda Santonastasio Boiling of the oceanä, plate 6 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio The coral necklaceä, plate 4 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio Black nightä, plate 1 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio Spool of tendernessä, plate 5 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio The ring-dove fliesä, plate 2 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio The ring-dove steersä, plate 3 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artistrtist, author (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Portrait of a Man oil on canvas 17th century
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Velasquez Studio Etching 16th - 17th century
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Dona Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain oil on canvas 1649
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John Stoll Gate of San Diego Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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John Stoll Gate of San Diego Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Diego Pignatelli d"Aragona (1687-1750), sketch Francesco Solimena (Italian, Neapolitan, 1657-1747)Oil on canvas; 23 1/4 x
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Robert Dighton Tripod potaa ceramic 12 - 14th century
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Mariana of Austria (1634-1696), Queen of Spain Workshop of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
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Morabito Collar Gros Point de Venise early 19th century
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Portrait of a Man, ca. 1630 Workshop of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish,
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Portrait of a Man Workshop of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)Oil on
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A Monk Carrying a Cross
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Diego Froncoso S. Ignacio de Loiola. Fundador de la ConpaÒia de Jesus.(St. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus) Engraving 18th century
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Diego Rodriquez de Silva Velazquez - A Man 1623-30 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Spanish
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The Supper at Emmaus, 1622-23 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)Oil on canvas;
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Yvonne Jacquette Clouds Obscuring San Diego 1987
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Bern Untitled ( Franciscan friar), from the first page of a panegyric oration in a celebration by the barefoot Franciscans of San Diego of Mexico on 4 September 1757 Engraving circa 1690
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Diego Velazquez - Portrait of a Man c. 1651-1652 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art Spanish
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Diego Velazquez - The Needlewoman c. 1640-1650 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Philip IV (1605-1665), King of Spain, probably 1624 Workshop of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Diego Froncoso Coat of Arms on page 2 of a sermon and prayers dedicated to SeÒor Don Domingo de Trespalacios y Escandon(IMPRESSO CON LICENCIA,/ En Mexico, por los Herederos de la Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal. AÒo de 1758) Engraving 1758
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim, Relief, 16th century (1567-68) By Diego de
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez El Ni`no De Vallecas...eighteenth plate in the book... El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lithograph 16th - 17th century
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Reunion De Bebedores.(the drinkers)...sixteenth plate in the book... El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lithograph 16th - 17th century
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Retrato De Un Anciano...(Portrait of an Ancient One)...seventeenth plate in the book... El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lithograph 16th - 17th ce
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez El Dios Marte.(The God Mars)...fifteenth plate in the book...El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lithograph 16th - 17th century
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Esopo.Retrato De Un Viejo Descamisado...(Portrait of a poor old man)...nineteenth plate in the book... El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lithograph
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Retrato De Un Enano De Felipe IV...(Portrait of the dwarf of Phillip IV)...twenty first plate in the book... El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lith
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Diego de Velazquez - The Jester Calabazas c. 1631-32 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Diego Velazquez - Don Pedro de Barberana c. 1631-33 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Spanish
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Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587-1645), Count-Duke of Olivares, ca. 1635 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez El Cuadro De "La Familia". Comunmente Llamado De Las Meninas..(.In thre quarters of the Spanish Royal Family ladies of the court flatter The Infanta)...Twentieth plate in the book...El Real Museo de Madrid y
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María Teresa (1638-1683), Infanta of Spain, 1651-54 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)Oil
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Mort De St. Joseph thirty seventh plate in the book... [Title in Russian and French] Imperatorskaya Ermitazhnaya Galereya ä GalÈrie ImpÈriale de l'Ermitage (Saint Petersburg: Gohier Desfontaines, 1847
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Diego Rodriquez de Silva Velazquez - King Philip IV of Spain 1644 oil on canvas The Frick Collection Spanish
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Diego Carlone - Saint Joseph and the Christ Child 1710-1720 lindenwood University of California, Berkeley Art Museum German
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco Goya y Lucientes After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish, 1599-1660 After Unknown
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670), 1650 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish, 1599-1660 Luis de Gongora y Argote 1622 Oil
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish, 1599-1660 Fan Netherlands (?), about 1750 Skin
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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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.
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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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
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...

Further Artwork and Information:

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