Gas Pump. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Diego Rivera · 1932

This is Gas Pump. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, nineteen thirty-two. It's watercolor and pencil on paper, about 45 by 29 centimeters. You can pick out the machine.

Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper · Dimensions 17 7/8 x 11 3/8" (45.4 x 28.9 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Study for the mural Day of the Dead: The Offering at the Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico City (Estudio para el mural Día de Muertos: La Ofrenda en la Secretaría de Educación Pública, Ciudad de México), Banana. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Sky Machine, Duplicate of The Large Glass, with missing elements added or The Large Glass Completed (supplementary suite, plate 17) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1

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)