Flower Market

Diego Rivera · 1930

This one's called Flower Market — a print by Rivera, nineteen thirty. A lithograph, drawn in grease on stone: the stone is wetted so the ink takes only where the drawing is. Nothing is cut away.

Medium Lithograph · Dimensions composition: 11 x 15 7/8" (28 x 40.4 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 7/8" (38 x 50.5 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

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

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Country Sociable - New England - 1915, "Présence" (chapter title, page 13) from Corps perdu, Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled, Untitled

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)