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)

Diego Rivera · 1925

Before you is 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) — a drawing by Rivera, nineteen twenty-five. Charcoal — burnt wood, sitting loose on the surface, which is why so little early drawing in it survives.

Medium Colored chalk and charcoal on paper · Dimensions 18 1/4 x 11 3/4" (46.4 x 30 cm) · Credit Given anonymously

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Agrarian Leader Zapata, Gas Pump. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: "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), The Country Sociable - New England - 1915, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled, Les musiciens (The Musicians)

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)