Diego Rivera’s “California Miners” Sketchbook (1931): New Research on the Artist in California during the Great Depression

While in San Francisco, California, in 1930 and 1931 to execute several mural commissions, including The Allegory of California and The Making of a Fresco, the famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera also produced an associated sketchbook. In forty-nine charcoal drawings, plus two additional watercolor...

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Published in:Getty research journal 2015-01, Vol.7 (1), p.185-196
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