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Exhibition

Diego Rivera

Frescoes

Liberation of the Peon (detail), 1931, by José Diego María Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957), 1943-46-1. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

When

Ongoing

Where

Black and Gallos Gallery 273

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In the 1920s and 1930s, a vogue for Mexican art in the United States drew prominent Mexican painters northward. In this installation are two of five portable murals that Diego Rivera created in New York for display in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1931.

Collection

Liberation of the Peon

José Diego María Rivera

Sugar Cane

José Diego María Rivera

Curators

Matthew Affron, The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art

Diego Rivera | Philadelphia Art Museum