Diego Rivera
Ralph Stackpole Cutting Stone (Ralph Stackpole taladrando piedra)1931

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
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)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: AC1997.LWN.391
Classification: Drawings
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.
Copyright: © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Diego Rivera governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
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)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: AC1997.LWN.391
Classification: Drawings
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.
Copyright: © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Diego Rivera governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.