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AdmittedDiego Rivera · c.1927–32
You're looking at Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, c.nineteen twenty-seven to nineteen thirty-two. The piece is watercolor and pencil on paper, about 31 by 47 centimeters. You can pick out the train.
Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper · Dimensions 12 1/8 x 18 5/8" (30.8 x 47.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: The Siren. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), My Grandparents, My Parents, and I
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Subway, Snapshot—In the New York Central Yards, The Hand of Man
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), Study for backdrop for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.