- 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)
- Accession Number
- M.2006.213.1
- 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.
