Art Institute of Chicago

Weaving

Diego Rivera · 1936

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; sold to Julie F. Miller (1882–1973; born Farwell, also Julie Wallace), Chicago, IL, 1936 [this and the following according to letter from Josephine Wallace KixMiller, Dec. 5, 1997; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to her daughter, Josephine Wallace KixMiller (1920–2017), Englewood, FL, 1998; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1567/they-seek-a-city-chicago-and-the-art-of-migration-1910-1950">They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950</a>, Mar. 3–June 3, 2013, fig. 49.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Diego Rivera's America, July 16, 2022–Jan. 2, 2023, cat. 178; Bentonville, AR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Mar. 11–July 31, 2023.

Literature

Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Exposicion de Homenaje Nacional, Diego Rivera: 50 Años de Su Labor Artistica (México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1951), no. 534, as Hilando.
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y Las Artes, Diego Rivera: Caltálogo General de Obra de Caballete (México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1989).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 237–38, cat. 111.
Sarah Kelly Oehler, They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 59–60, cat. 49 (ill.), as The Weaver.
James Oles (ed.), Diego Rivera's America, exh. cat. (University of California Press, 2020), 214–216, 272, cat. 178 (ill.)

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