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AdmittedDiego Rivera · 1932
Before you is Workman. Costume 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. In the picture, look for the soldier.
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: Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Beginning to Loom Larger and Larger on the Horizon, Police Officer, Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story, Match-seller, New York, New York
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)
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.