A Mexican muralist painter, Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was an outspoken member of the Mexican communist party and husband to painter Frida Kahlo. After painting a series of murals in Mexico, Rivera’s travels brought him to the Soviet Union to take part in the anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution, and later to the United States with his wife Frida Kahlo. Rivera was a notorious womanizer, and was married five times throughout his lifetime, twice to Kahlo. His radical political beliefs, attacks on organized religion and his dealings with left-wing assassins made him a controversial figure while he alive, but the quality of his artwork surpassed his personal beliefs, and continued to be a successful painter until his death. Learn more »
Paintings by Diego Rivera in Chronological Order
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| La Era (The Threshing Floor), 1904 | Head of a Goat, c.1905 | Night Scene in Avila, 1907 |
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| Self-Portrait, 1907 | House over the Bridge, c.1909 | Notre Dame de Paris, 1909 |
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| Portrait of Angelina Beloff, 1909 | Breton Girl, 1909 | Head of a Breton Woman, 1910 |
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| View of Toledo, 1912 | Landscape at Toledo, 1913 | Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff, 1913 |
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| Portrait of the Adolfo Best Maugard, 1913 | Still Life, 1913 | The Adoration of the Virgin, 1913 |
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| Woman at a Well, 1913 | La Tour Eiffel, 1914 | Portrait of Two Women, 1914 |
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| Sailor at Breakfast, 1914 | Portrait de Martin Luis Guzman, 1915 | Portrait of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, 1915 |
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| Zapatista Landscape. The Guerrilla, 1915 | Motherhood Angelina and the Child Diego, 1916 | Still Life, 1918 |
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| The Mathematician, 1918 | The Outskirts of Paris, 1918 | Creation, 1922-1923 |
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| Entry into the Mine, 1923 | Exit from the Mine, 1923 | Tehuana Women, 1923 |
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| The Embrace, 1923 | The Liberation of The Peon, 1923 | The New School, 1923 |
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| The Sugar Mill, 1923 | Alliance of the Peasant and the Industrial Worker, 1924 | Good Friday on the Santa Anita Canal, 1923-1924 |
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| Partition of the Land, 1924 | The Day of the Dead, 1924 | The Festival of The Distribution of The Land, 1923-1924 |
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| The Festival of The First of May, 1924 | The Maize Festival, 1924 | The Market, 1923-1924 |
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| The Sacrificial Offering Day of the Dead, 1923-1924 | Woman Grinding Maize, 1924 | Flower Festival, 1925 |
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| Revelation of the Way, 1926 | The Exploiters, 1926 | The Land’s Bounty Rightfully Possessed, 1926 |
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| The Mechanization of The Country, 1926 | The Organization of The Agrarian Movement, 1926 | Triumph of the Revolution, 1926 |
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| Indian Boy and Indian Woman with Corn Stalks, 1926-1927 | The Blood of the Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth, 1926-1927 | The Perpetual Renewal of the Revolutionary Struggle, 1926-1927 |
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| Death of the Capitalist, 1928 | Night of the Poor, 1928 | Night of the Rich, 1928 |
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| Our Bread, 1928 | The Learned, 1928 | The Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect, 1923-1928 |
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| Wall Street Banquet, 1928 | The Arsenal, 1928 | Entering the City, 1930 |
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| My Godfather’s Sons, 1930 | Zapata’s Horse, 1930 | Allegory of California, 1930 |
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| Conquest and Revolution, 1930-1931 | Frozen Assets, 1931 | The Making of a Fresco, Showing The Building of a City, 1931 |
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| Zapata, 1930-1931 | Edsel B. Ford, 1932 | Detroit Industry, South Wall, 1932-1933 |
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| Man at the Crossroads/Man, Controller of the Univers, 1933-1934 | The Ancient Indian World, 1929-1935 | The History of Mexico, 1929-1935 |
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| The History of Mexico, 1929-1935 | The History of Mexico, 1929-1935 | The History of Mexico, 1929-1935 |
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| The History of Mexico, 1929-1935 | The World of Today and Tomorrow, 1929-1935 | Carnival of Mexican Life. Dictatorship, 1936 |
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| The Pinole Seller, 1936 | Portrait of Lupe Marin, 1938 | Portrait of Madesta and Inesita, 1939 |
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| The Hands of Dr. Moore, 1940 | Pan American Unity, 1940 | Self-Portrait Dedicated to Irene Rich, 1941 |
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| Portrait of Carlos Pellicer, 1942 | Portrait of Natasha Zakólkowa Gelman, 1943 | The Day of the Dead, 1944 |
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| The Milliner. Potrait of Henri de Chatillon, 1944 | Portrait of Cuca Bustamante, 1946 | The Temptations of Saint Antony, 1947 |
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| Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, 1948 | Portrait of Ruth Rivera, 1949 | The Huastec Civilization, 1950 |
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| The Papermakers, 1950 | Totonac Civilization, 1950 | Figure Symbolizing the African Race, 1951 |
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| Figure Symbolizing the Asiatic Race, 1951 | The Hands of Nature Offering Water, 1951 | Colonisation, ‘The Great City of Tenochtitlan’, 1952 |
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| Portrait of the Young Girl Elenita Carrillo Flores, 1952 | A History of Medicine, 1953 | Portrait of Sra. Dona Elena Flores de Carrillo, 1953 |
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| The Painter’s Studio, 1954 | Evening Twilight at Acapulco, 1956 | May Day Procession in Moscow, 1956 |
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| The Hammock, 1956 | Angeline Beloff | Classical Head |
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| Delfina and Dimas | Detroit Industry, North Wall | Indian Spinning |
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| Lenin in 1922 | Self Portrait | Pre Hispanic America |
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| Sugar Plantation, Tealtenango, Morelos and Indian Slaves in the Gold Mines | The Architect, Jesus T. Acevedo | The Flower Seller |
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