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[Diego Rivera, bust, facing slightly left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Diego Rivera, bust, facing slightly left] — historic photograph
[Diego Rivera, bust, facing slightly left]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of [Diego Rivera, bust, facing slightly left] brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Diego Rivera, bust, facing slightly left]

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Here is a 1940 portrait of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, shown in a head-and-shoulders bust turned slightly to the left. Rivera was among the most recognizable artists of his time, known for large public murals and his outsized presence, and by 1940 he had worked across the United States as well as Mexico. The print comes from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, so it is best read as documentary portraiture of a public figure rather than a studio fine-art piece. Its soft tonal range and direct gaze make it a useful record of how the artist was presented to the public that year.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1940
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,264 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120839

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