List of works by Diego Rivera

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Diego Rivera with Xoloitzcuintle dog

This is a list of works by Diego Rivera (8 December 1886, Guanajuato – 24 November 1957, Mexico City). He was a Modern painter, famous for his social realist murals. This list is split into two distinct era's in Rivera's work, the formative years between 1886 until 1920; and the social realism years between 1921 until his death in 1957.

Rivera is also known for his marriage to Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907, Mexico City – 13 July 1954, Mexico City), also a celebrated Mexican painter.[1]

Selected Collections

Paintings by Rivera

Formative years (1886–1912)

Image Title (English)[2] Year Location Dimensions (H × W in cm) Medium
Classical Head 1898 48.5 × 39.2
The Threshing Floor 1904 Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico 100 × 114.6
Head of a Goat 1905 Rafael Coronel Collection, Cuernavaca, Mexico 12.5 × 9.5
Night Scene in Avila 1907 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City
Self-Portrait 1907 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City
Avila Morning (The Ambles Valley) 1908 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City 97 × 123
Street in Ávila (Ávila Landscape) 1908 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City 129 × 141
House over the Bridge 1909 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City 147 × 120
Notre Dame de Paris 1909 144 × 113
Portrait of Angelina Beloff 1909
El Picador 1909 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City 177 × 133
Breton Girl 1910 Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico 100 × 80
Head Of A Breton Woman 1910 Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico 129 × 141
After the Storm (The Grounded Ship) 1910 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City 120.7 × 146.7
Landscape 1911

Pre-Cubism (1912–1913)

Image Title (English) Year Location Dimensions (H × W in cm) Medium
View Of Toledo 1912 112 × 91
Landscape at Toledo 1913 Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Mexico 32 × 46
Portrait Of Oscar Miestchaninoff 1913 Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 147 × 120
Portrait Of The Adolfo Best Maugard 1913 Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico 227.5 × 161.5
The Sun Breaking through the Mist 1913 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, 83.5 × 59
The Adoration Of The Virgin 1913 150 × 120 Oil and encaustic on canvas
Still Life 1913 Hermitage, St. Petersburg 84 × 65 Tempera on canvas

Cubism (1913–1920)

Image Title (English)[2] Year Location Dimensions (H × W in cm) Medium
Woman At a Well 1913 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City
Chimenea (Chimney) 1913 Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México 73 × 59.4 Oil and pencil on canvas
Portrait of Two Women 1914 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock 197.5 × 161.3 Oil on canvas
La Tour Eiffel 1914 115 × 92
The Alarm Clock 1914 Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City
Sailor at Breakfast 1914 117 × 72
Young Man with a Fountain Pen 1914 79.5 × 63.5
Portrait of Kawashima and Foujita 1914 78.5 × 74 Oil and collage on canvas
Zapata-style Landscape 1915 Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico 145 × 125
Seated Woman (Women with the Body of a Guitar) 1915 Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City
Portrait de Martin Luis Guzman 1915 72.3 × 59.3
Portrait of Ramon Gomez de la Serna 1915
El Rastro 1915 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, 27.5 × 38.5
Portrait of Marevna Art institute of Chicago 145.7 × 112.7
Motherhood Angelina and the Child Diego 1916 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City 134.5 × 88.5 Oil on canvas
Urban Landscape 1916 Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City
Still Life with Tulips 1916 67.8 × 53.7 Oil on canvas
Still Life with Utensils 1917 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, 71 × 54
La Jarra de Cerveza (The Beer Pitcher) 1917 Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México 27 × 22 Oil on canvas

Realism (1917–1918)

Image Title (English) Year Location Dimensions (H × W in cm) Medium
Knife and Fruit in Front of the Window 1917 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, 91.8 × 92.4
Still Life with Ricer also known as Still Life with Garlic Press 1918
The Outskirts Of Paris 1918
The Mathematician 1918 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City,

Social Realism (1921–1957)

Image Title (English)[2] Year Location Dimensions (H × W in cm) Medium
Creation 1922–1923 San Ildefonso College, Mexico City, Fresco, Gold leaf
Bather of Tehuantepec 1923 63 × 52 Oil on canvas
Entry into the Mine 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City 474 × 366 Fresco
Exit from the Mine 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
The Embrace 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
Tehuana Women 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City 476 × 214 Fresco
The Liberation of The Peon 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
The New School 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
Good Friday on the Santa Anita Canal 1923 456 × 356 Fresco
The Sugar Mill 1923 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City 482 × 366 Fresco
The Festival of The Distribution of The Land 1923–1924 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
The Festival of The First of May 1923–1924 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
The Market 1923–1924 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
The Maize Festival 1923–1924 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City 438 × 239 Fresco
The Sacrificial Offering Day of the Dead 1923–1924 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City 415 × 237 Fresco
Alliance of the Peasant and the Industrial Worker 1924 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
The Day of the Dead 1924 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
Partition of the Land 1924 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
Dia de Flores (Flower Festival) 1925 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 147.3 × 120.7 Oil on canvas
The Exploiters 1926 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
The Abundant Earth 1926 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
Revelation of the Way 1926 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
Triumph of the Revolution 1926 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
The Organization of The Agrarian Movement 1926 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
The Mechanization of The Country 1926 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City Fresco
The Land's Bounty Rightfully Possessed 1926 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico Fresco
Indian Boy and Indian Woman with Corn Stalks 1926–27 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico
Subterranean Forces 1926–27 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico
Maturation 1926–27 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico
The Blood of the Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth 1926–27 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico 244 × 491
The Liberated Earth with The Powers of Nature Controlled by Man 1926–27 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico 692 × 598
The Perpetual Renewal of the Revolutionary Struggle 1926–27 Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico 354 × 357
Cargadora With Dog 1927 Watercolour
Death of the Capitalist 1928 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City
Night of the Rich 1928 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City
Our Bread 1928 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City
The Learned 1928 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City
The Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect 1923–1928 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City
Wall Street Banquet 1928 Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City
The Arsenal 1928 Courtyard of the Fiestas, Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico City, Mexico Fresco
Entering the City 1930 Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca, Mexico Fresco
My Godfather's Sons (Portrait of Modesto and Jesus Sanchez) 1930 Fomento Cultural Banamex, Mexico City
Zapata's Horse 1930
Conquest and Revolution 1930–31
Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees 1930–31 University of California, Berkeley, Stern Hall, Berkeley, California 265 × 100 Fresco
Allegory of California 1930–31 The City Club of San Francisco, Stock Exchange Tower, San Francisco, California Fresco
Zapata 1930–31 The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos 214 × 89
The Making of a Fresco, Showing The Building of a City 1931 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Fresco
Frozen Assets 1931 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City 188.5 × 239
Blue Boy with the Banana 1931 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California 91.4 × 54.9 Oil on canvas
Edsel B. Ford 1932 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan 125.1 × 97.8
Detroit Industry, South Wall 1932–1933 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Fresco
Detroit Industry, North Wall 1933 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Fresco
Man at the Crossroads / Man, Controller of the Universe 1933–34 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
The Ancient Indian World 1929–35 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City
The World of Today and Tomorrow 1929–35 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City
The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future (main wall) 1929–35 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City
The History of Mexico 1929–35 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City
Delfina and Dimas 1935 24 × 31 tempera on masonite
The Flower Carrier (Flower Carrier) 1935 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 121.9 × 121.3 Oil and tempera on masonite
The Pinole Seller 1936 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City 81.4 × 60.7
Indian Woman Spinning / Indigena Tejiendo 1936 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona 81.3 × 59.7
Carnival of Mexican Life. Dictatorship 1936 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Copalli 1937 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, New York 91.44 × 121.92
Portrait of Lupe Marin 1938 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 171.3 × 122.3
Portrait of Dolores Del Rio 1938
The Lady in White 1939
Portrait of Madesta and Inesita 1939 99 × 69
Dancer Resting 1939 Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City 95 × 166
Los Vasos Comunicantes (The Communicating Cups) 1939 Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México 60 × 84,5 linocut on paper
Pan American Unity 1940 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (was previously located at City College of San Francisco, Diego Rivera Theater, but moved in 2020) 670 × 2,260 Fresco
The Hands of Dr. Moore 1940 San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California 45.8 × 55.9
Portrait of Paulette Goddard 1940–41
Self-Portrait Dedicated to Irene Rich 1941 Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton, Massachusetts 61 × 43
The Flower Seller 1941
The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies) 1941 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California 121.9 × 121.9 Oil on masonite
El Vendedor de Alcatraces (Calla Lily Vendor) 1942 Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México
Portrait of Carlos Pellicer 1942 55 × 43
Portrait of Natasha Zakólkowa Gelman 1943 115 × 153
Calla Lily Vendor 1943 The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art 150 × 120 Oil on masonite
Nude with Calla Lilies 1944 157 × 124
The Day of the Dead 1944 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 91 × 73.5
The Milliner. Portrait of Henri de Chatillon 1944
Portrait of Adalgisa Nery 1945
Portrait of Cuca Bustamante 1946 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 158 × 122.5
Portrait of Mrs Elisa Saldivar de Gutierrez Roldan
Portrait of Linda Christian 1947
The Temptations of Saint Anthony 1947 Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, 90 × 110
Portrait of an Actress 1948
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park 1948 Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City
Retrato de María Félix
Portrait of Evangelina Rivas de De la Chica, The lady from Oaxaca 1949
Portrait of Senora Dona Evangelina Rivas de LaChica 1949
Portrait of Ruth Rivera 1949 199 × 100.5
Vendedora de Flores (The Flower Seller) 1949 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain 180 × 150 Oil on canvas
Colonisation, 'The Great City of Tenochtitlan' 1945–52 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 971 × 492
The Huastec Civilisation 1950 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City,
The Papermakers 1950 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City,
Totonac Civilization 1950 Palacio Nacional, Mexico City,
Pre-Hispanic America 1950
Figure Symbolizing the African Race 1951
Figure Symbolizing the Asiatic Race 1951
The Hands of Nature Offering Water 1951
Portrait of the Young Girl Elenita Carrillo Flores 1952 55 × 105
The Banana Leaf Loader 1953 50 × 40
The History of Medicine in Mexico: The People's Demand for Better Health 1953
Portrait of Sra. Dona Elena Flores de Carrillo 1953 140 × 221.5
The Painter's Studio 1954 150 × 178
Evening Twilight at Acapulco 1956 30 × 40
Portrait of Silvia Pinal 1956
The Hammock 1956
May Day Procession in Moscow 1956 135.2 × 108.3
Lenin in 1922 Unknown
Sugar Plantation, Tealtenango, Morelos and Indian Slaves in the Gold Mines Unknown
The Architect, Jesus T. Acevedo Unknown Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Portrait of Marevna Unknown

References

  1. ↑ "Diego Rivera, Mexican painter". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  2. 1 2 3 "Wikiart". Archived from the original on 2020-10-11.