- Title
- Ralph Stackpole Cutting Stone (Ralph Stackpole taladrando piedra)
- Date Made
- 1931
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 1/2 × 18 3/4 in. (62.2 × 47.6 cm)
- Accession Number
- AC1997.LWN.391
- Collecting Area
- Latin American Art
- Curatorial Notes
At the height of his international fame, Diego Rivera was invited to paint several frescoes in the United States -- including the ill-fated 1933 mural at Rockefeller Center in New York, which was destroyed because it contained a portrait of the Soviet leader Lenin. This sketch of sculptor Ralph Stackpole at work with a pneumatic hammer was for Rivera's 1931 fresco at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). The theme of the mural is the design and construction of a modern and industrial city in the United States.
Ilona Katzew, 2008
- Selected Bibliography
- Diego Rivera: a Rare Retrospective Exhibition. Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1993.
