Self Portrait
Diego Rivera
(December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957)
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was born Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez in Guanajuato, Gto.).
He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929-1939 and 1940-1954 (her death).
Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New York City. His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City was their second.
Detail from The Great City of Tenochtitlan , from the Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexico cycle, 1945-52
The Conquest or Arrival of Hernan Cortes in Veracruz, from the cycle Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexico, 1951
El Vendedor De Alcatraces
Colonisation, The Great City of Tenochtitlan, detail from the mural, Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexico, 1945-52
Campesino 1938
The Creation of the Earth, page from Popol Vuh
The Creation of Man, Popol Vuh
A Poor Family in the Street 1934
Child with Calla Lillies
The Great City of Tenochtitlan, detail of women selling maize, 1945
Portrait of Benito Juarez 1948
History of Mexico from the Conquest to 1930, detail of a mural from the cycle Epic of the Mexican People, 1929-31