Building the Palace Of Cortez

Diego Rivera · 1930

Here we have Building the Palace Of Cortez — a drawing by Rivera, nineteen thirty. Pencil on brown paper — about 48 by 32 centimeters.

Medium Pencil on brown paper · Dimensions 18 7/8 x 12 1/2" (48 x 31.8 cm) · Credit Given anonymously

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), "A Mexican Artist Records his First Impressions of San Francisco"

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled (Western Scene), Landscape with Steer, Homestead, Drawing of Scene 12: The Dream: The Belies, The Great Bear, Phoebus, The Twin Stars, Saturn of the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), Koreatown, Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Gladiators

More by Diego Rivera here: Agrarian Leader Zapata, Man at the Crossroads, Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita, The Man. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Study for backdrop for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)