Diego Rivera
Portrait of John Dunbar (Retrato de John Dunbar)1931

Not on view

Oil painting portrait of a seated man in a navy suit reading a red-covered book in a cane chair, with a terracotta figurine on a pedestal behind him against blue walls

Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title: Portrait of John Dunbar (Retrato de John Dunbar)
Date Made: 1931
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image (Image): 78 1/2 × 62 in. (199.39 × 157.48 cm) Frame: 80 1/2 × 64 1/4 × 2 in. (204.47 × 163.2 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: M.2006.213.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: John Atkinson Dunbar, a New York real estate mogul and good friend of Diego Rivera, is seated on an equipal, a traditional Mexican chair. He is portrayed with sculpture in the style of West Mexican ceramics, pointing to Rivera's interest in the ancient traditions of Mexico.
Ilona Katzew, 2008
Selected Bibliography: Diego Rivera: a Rare Retrospective Exhibition. Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1993.
Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
Paquette, Catha. At the Crossroads: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts. Austin: University of Texas, 2017.
Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
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.

Diego Rivera
Portrait of John Dunbar (Retrato de John Dunbar)1931

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title: Portrait of John Dunbar (Retrato de John Dunbar)
Date Made: 1931
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image (Image): 78 1/2 × 62 in. (199.39 × 157.48 cm) Frame: 80 1/2 × 64 1/4 × 2 in. (204.47 × 163.2 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: M.2006.213.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: John Atkinson Dunbar, a New York real estate mogul and good friend of Diego Rivera, is seated on an equipal, a traditional Mexican chair. He is portrayed with sculpture in the style of West Mexican ceramics, pointing to Rivera's interest in the ancient traditions of Mexico.
Ilona Katzew, 2008
Selected Bibliography: Diego Rivera: a Rare Retrospective Exhibition. Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1993.
Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
Paquette, Catha. At the Crossroads: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts. Austin: University of Texas, 2017.
Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
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.