Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita

Diego Rivera · October 13, 1931

You're looking at Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita — a painting by Rivera, October thirteenth, nineteen thirty-one. The medium is encaustic: pigment stirred into hot wax and brushed on molten, setting as it cools, so every stroke is fixed the moment it lands. In the picture, look for the flowers and the group of people.

Medium Encaustic on canvas · Dimensions 6' 6 1/2" x 64" (199.3 x 162.5 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Sun. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Workman. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

More by Diego Rivera here: Agrarian Leader Zapata, Man at the Crossroads, 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), Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)