Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Diego Rivera Mural Item in Leah Garchik's Column

Here's the e-message I sent to Leah Garchik in response to this item.

Dear Leah,

I was startled by the item about "Mrs. Diego Rivera" in today's paper.  Your contact person is right that the outline identifies Frida Kahlo as "Mrs. Diego Rivera," but they divorced in 1939 and didn't remarry until December 8, 1940, on Diego Rivera's birthday--in SF City Hall, no less!  He had finished the mural by November 1940,  so she was not yet "Mrs. Diego Rivera.   Life published the article on March 3, 1941.  Was it Life Magazine editors who chose her husband's identity as hers?

This may be something I should know--or remember.  I was the Director the Grant for  Instructional Improvement using Rivera's Mural of Pan American Unity at CCSF way back around 2001 or so.    We did a lot of lessons around it.

Anyway, if Phelan Avenue is name-changed to Frida Kahlo Way, "Mrs. Diego Rivera" will be identified by her own name!

Tina

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