Object number1973.13.2
Crouching Boy Feeding Dog
DateNd
Artist
Diego Rivera
(Mexican, 1886 - 1957)
CultureMexican
MediumWatercolor on paper mounted on board
DimensionsMount: 21 1/4 × 16 15/16 in. (54 × 43 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (38.7 × 27.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (38.7 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Richard Adloff (Virginia McLean Thompson, class of 924)
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (LR): Diego Rivera
Vassar Exhibitions
Label TextDiego Rivera was among the foremost painters in postrevolutionary Mexico, achieving fame for epic mural cycles inspired by Mexican history and society. He was also well-known in the United States; he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1931 and received high-profile mural commissions, such as the one for Henry Ford’s automobile factory in Detroit (now at the Detroit Institute of Arts). Rivera also painted smaller, more intimate scenes of Mexican children—some seventy in total over the course of his career—often based on the sons and daughters of his household staff. They are usually unidentified figures meant to represent the solemn dignity of children of the working class. The barefooted figure in this watercolor, crouching next to a dog and cat, belongs to this subgenre, which enjoyed a vogue among stateside collectors in the 1920s and 1930s.
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