Diego Rivera
Crouching Nude (Tina Modotti)
1925
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Diego Rivera
Crouching Nude (Tina Modotti)
1925
Physical Qualities
Black chalk with stumping, Sheet: 482 x 620 mm. (19 x 24 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1931.41.2
This drawing is one of many studies that Diego Rivera made in conjunction with a mural cycle he painted in 1926 for the Chapel of the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura in Chapingo (just outside Mexico City). Rivera conceived of the didactic program of the chapel’s decoration in two complementary halves: the west wall, which addresses the post-revolutionary shift in land ownership and redistribution, thematically parallels the east wall, which deals with the natural evolution of the earth. Rivera’s fresco "Subterranean Forces", to which this drawing relates, shows a group of symbolic female figures moving up and through the fiery layers of the earth. Rivera dedicated this drawing to American fellow artist Tina Modotti, who began posing for Rivera in 1925.
The Baltimore Museum of Art; Blanche Adler, Baltimore
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler," 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 45 pp. 21.
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Diego Rivera, A Retrospective," February 10 - April 27, 1986, plus travel through summer 1987, no. 107, illustrated p. 159.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Diego Rivera, A Retrospective," February 10 - April 27, 1986, plus travel through summer 1987, no. 107, illustrated p. 159.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
Inscribed: lower left in black chalk: "A Tina Modotti / Diego Rivera. 26"
Markings: WM
