ILLUSTRATIONS
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I Self-Portrait, 1926. Oil on canvas, 31” x 23". Collection of Alejandro Gómez Arias, Mexico City. Photo Hayden Herrera.
II Self-Portrait, 1929. Oil on masonite, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
III Frida and Diego Rivera, 1931. Oil on canvas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender.
IV Henry Ford Hospital, 1932. Oil on sheet metal, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
V Retablo, 1937. Oil on sheet metal, Collection of Hayden Herrera, New York. Photo Jim Kalett.
VI My Birth, 1932. Oil on sheet metal, Collection of Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., New York. Photo Jim Kalett.
VII The Goddess Tlazolteotl in the Act of Childbirth, Aztec, early sixteenth century. Aplite speckled with garnets, 8” high. Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
VIII A Few Small Nips, 1935. Oil on sheet metal, 15” x 19". Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
IX José Guadalupe Posada, a victim of Francisco Guerro, "El Chalequero,” throat-cutter of women, assassinated in 1887 on the Rio Consulado, 1890. Engraving, 5” x 7".
X My Nurse and I, 1937. Oil on sheet metal, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XI The Deceased Dimas, 1937. Oil on masonite, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XII Fulang-Chang and I, 1937. Oil on masonite, Collection of Mary Sklar, New York. Photo Jim Kalett.
XIII Self-Portrait, 1937. Oil on canvas, 30” x 24". Collection of Mrs. Henry R. Luce, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo Ric Noyle.
XIV The Two Fridas, 1939. Oil on canvas, 67” x 67". Collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. Photo José Verde
XV The Dream, 1940. Oil on canvas, Collection of Selma and Nesuhi Ertegun, New York. Photo courtesy Sotheby Parke Bernet.
XVI Self-Portrait, 1940. Oil on canvas, Iconography Collection, Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
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>XVII Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940. Oil on canvas, Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
XVIII Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1940. Oil on masonite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XIX Self-Portrait, 1940. Oil on masonite, Collection of the Estate of Dr. Leo Eloesser, courtesy Hoover Gallery.
XX Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943. Oil on canvas, 32” x 25". Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXI Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943. Oil on masonite Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico City. Photo José Verde.
XXII Thinking About Death, 1943. Oil on masonite, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXIII Self-Portrait with Small Monkey, 1945. Oil on masonite, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXIV Self-Portrait, 1947. Oil on masonite, Collection of Licio Lagos, Mexico City. Photo courtesy Galería de Arte Mexicano.
XXV Self-Portrait, 1948. Oil on masonite, Collection of Sr. Dr. Samuel Fastlicht, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXVI Diego and I, 1949. Oil on canvas pasted on masonite, Collection of Mr. S. A. Williams, Wilmette, Illinois. Photo William H. Bengtson.
XXVII Roots, 1943. Oil on sheet metal, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXVIII The Broken Column, 1944. Oil on masonite, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo José Verde.
XXIX Without Hope, 1945. Oil on masonite, Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXX Tree of Hope, 1946. Oil on masonite, 22” x 16". Collection of Daniel Filipacchi, Paris. Photo courtesy Sotheby Parke Bernet.
XXXI The Little Deer, 1946. Oil on masonite, 9” x 12". Collection of Mr. Espinosa Ulloa, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXXII Sun and Life, 1947. Oil on masonite, Collection of Manuel Perusquia, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXXIII The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Señor Xolotl, 1949. Oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugenio Riquelme. Photo Karen and David Crommie.
XXXIV Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill, 1951. Oil on masonite, Collection of Eugenia Farill, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
XXXV Viva la Vida, 1954. Oil on masonite, The Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
Black-and-white illustrations following page here
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1.Wedding photograph of Guillermo Kahlo and Matilde Calderón, 1898.
2.My Grandparents, My Parents and I, 1936. Oil and tempera on metal panel, Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Allan Roos, M.D., and B. Mathieu Roos.
3.Frida (lower right) after recovering from polio, with members of her family. Back row, second from right, her mother; fifth from right, her grandmother; seated with legs crossed, her sister Cristina.
4.They Ask for Planes and Only Get Straw Wings, 1938. Oil. Whereabouts unknown.
5.Four Inhabitants of Mexico, 1938. Oil on sheet metal, Private collection, California.
6.Self-portrait by Guillermo Kahlo, c. 1907.
7.Portrait of Don Guillermo Kahlo, 1952. Oil on canvas, 0.62 x 0.48 mts. The Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
8.Frida as a schoolgirl, 1923.
9.Alejandro Gómez Arias, c. 1928.
10.Frida’s drawing of her accident, n.d. Collection Rafael Coronel, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
11.Frida (standing, left, wearing a man’s suit) with members of her family. Back row, from left: her aunt, her sister Adriana, Adriana’s husband Alberto Veraza; middle row: her uncle, her mother, her cousin Carmen; front row: Carolos Veraza, Cristina. Photograph by Guillermo Kahlo, 1926.
12.Portrait of Adriana, 1927. Oil on canvas. Whereabouts unknown. Photo Guillermo Kahlo.
13.Portrait of Cristina Kahlo, 1928. Oil on wood, Collection Isolda Kahlo, Mexico City.
14.Diego Rivera’s portrait of Frida distributing arms, in his Ministry of Education mural, 1928.
15.Niña, 1929. Oil on masonite, Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
16.The Bus, 1929. Oil on canvas, Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
17.Frida and Diego on their wedding day, August 21, 1929.
18.Self-Portrait, 1930. Oil on canvas, 26 x 22". Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
19.Portrait of Eva Frederick, 1931. Oil on canvas, Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
20.Portrait of Mrs. Jean Wight, 1931. Oil on canvas, Collection Gutierre Tibón, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Photo Raúl Salinas.
21.Portrait of Dr. Leo Eloesser, 1931. Oil on cardboard, Collection University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
22.Luther Burbank, 1931. Oil on masonite, Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
23.Frida and Diego at the Rouge River complex of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, 1932.
24.On the scaffold at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1932. Courtesy the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders’ Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund and Gift of Edsel B. Ford, neg. no. 2773. Photo W. J. Stettler, a Ford Motor Company photographer.
25.With (from left to right) Lucienne Bloch, Arthur Niendorff, and Jean Wight, on the roof of the Detroit Institute of Arts, watching the solar eclipse, August 31, 1932. Courtesy of The Detroit Institute of Arts, neg. no. 2774. Photo W. J. Stettler, a Ford Motor Company photographer.
26.Frida and the Abortion, 1932. Lithograph, Photo Raúl Salinas.
27.After the death of her mother. Photograph by Guillermo Kahlo, 1932.
28.Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 19
32. Oil on sheet metal, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Reyero, New York. Photo courtesy Christie’s, New York.
29.Painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline.
30.Self-Portrait, 1933. Collection Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico City. Oil on sheet metal, Photo Raúl Salinas.
31.Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural as repainted in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, 1934. Photo Raúl Salinas.
32.With Diego and an unidentified friend at the New Workers’ School, New York City, 1933.
33.With Nelson Rockefeller and Rosa Covarrubias in 1939.
34.My Dress Hangs There, 1933. Oil and collage on masonite, Estate of Dr. Leo Eloesser, Courtesy Hoover Gallery, San Francisco.
35.Rivera’s portraits of Frida, Cristina, and Cristina’s children, in his mural at the National Palace, 1935.
36.With Ella Wolfe in New York 1935.
37.Self-Portrait, 1935. Oil on sheet metal. Private collection, California.
38.Isamu Noguchi. Photograph by Edward Weston, 1935.
39.Memory, 1937. Oil on sheet metal, Collection Michel Petitjean, Paris.
40.Remembrance of an Open Wound, 1938. Oil, destroyed by fire. Photo courtesy Raquel Tibol.
41.With her niece and nephew, Isolda and Antonio Kahlo.
42.With Diego in front of the organ cactus fence at San Angel.
43.The Riveras’ linked houses in San Angel.
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44.The Trotskys arriving at Tampico, 1937.
45.Frida and Trotsky, 1937.
46.With, from left, Trotsky (seated), Diego, Natalia Trotsky, Reba Hansen, André Breton, and Jean van Heijenoort, on an outing near Mexico City, June 1938.
47.A gathering in Lupe Marín’s apartment in 1938. From left, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Frida, Jacqueline and André Breton, Lupe, Diego, and Lya Cardoza.
48.Me and My Doll, 1937. Oil on sheet metal, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
49.Escuincle Dog with Me, c. 1938. Oil. Whereabouts unknown. Photo courtesy Unidad de Documentación Dirección de Artes Plásticas. INBA.
50.What the Water Gave Me, 1938. Oil on canvas, 38 x 30". Collection Tomás Fernández Marquez, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
51.At the New York exhibition, 1938. Photo by Elinor Mayer.
52.With Nickolas Muray. Photograph by Nickolas Muray, c. 1938.
53.Two Nudes in a Forest, 1939. Oil on sheet metal, 9 x 12". Collection Dolores del Rio, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
54.Suicide of Dorothy Hale, 1939. Oil on masonite, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
55.The Wounded Table, 1940. Oil on canvas. Whereabouts unknown. Photo courtesy Excelsior Archive.
56.Self-Portrait, 1940. Oil on masonite, Estate of Dr. Leo Eloesser, courtesy Hoover Gallery. Photo courtesy Sotheby Parke Bernet.
57.Self-Portrait with Braid, 1941. Oil on masonite, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
58.Ceramic clocks, one with the date of the divorce (Frida wrote on it “The hours were broken"), the other with the date of the remarriage. Photo Hayden Herrera.
59.Frida and Diego with Caimito de Guayabal. Photo courtesy Excelsior Archive.
60.During World War II. Photograph by Nickolas Muray.
61.In the dining room of the blue house in Coyoacán. Photograph by Emmy Lou Packard.
62.Diego and Frida 1929–1944, 1944. Oil on cardboard. Whereabouts unknown. Photo courtesy Unidad de Documentación Dirección de Artes Plásticas, INBA.
63.Self-Portrait, drawing, 1946. Pencil on paper, Collection Marte Gómez Leal, Mexico City. Photo José Verde.
64.Flower of Life, 1944. Oil on masonite, Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
65.Still Life, 1942. Oil on sheet metal, diameter. The Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
66.Fruits of the Earth, 1938. Oil on masonite, Collection Banco Nacional de Mexico, Mexico. Photo Larry Bercow.
67.Portrait of Mariana Morillo Safa, 1944. Oil on canvas, Collection Ruth Davidoff, Mexico City. Photo courtesy Unidad de Documentación Dirección de Artes Plásticas, INBA.
68.Doña Rosita Morillo, 1944. Oil on masonite, Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
69.Moses, 1945. Oil on masonite, 37 x 20". Collection Jorge Espinosa Ulloa, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
70.With Granizo (“the little deer") when he was a fawn, c. 1939. Photograph by Nickolas Muray.
71.With Diego at a political rally, c. 1946.
72.With three of her students, c. 1948. From left, Fanny Rabel, Arturo Estrada, and Arturo García Bustos.
73.Frida, c. 1947.
74.Detail from Rivera’s 1947–1948 Hotel del Prado mural, in which he depicted himself as a boy; Frida’s hand rests protectively on his shoulder.
75.Diego with María Félix, 1949.
76.Frida’s year in the hospital, 1950–1951. Above left, holding a sugar skull with her name on it; above, right, painting one of the succession of plaster corsets she endured; left, with Diego. Photo Juan Guzmán.
77.Painting Naturaleza Viva, at home, 1952. Photo Antonio Rodríguez.
78.With her servants, c. 1952.
79.Being carried into the gallery at the opening of the Homage to Frida Kahlo in 1953. Looking on are (left to right) Concha Michel, Antonio Peláez, Dr. Roberto Garza, Carmen Farell, and (lower right), Doctor Atl. Photo courtesy Excelsior Archive.
80.Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick, 1954. Oil on masonite, 30 x 24". The Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City. Photo Raúl Salinas.
81.Frida’s studio as she left it, the unfinished portrait of Stalin on the easel. Photo Raúl Salinas.
82.Protesting the ouster of Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán by the CIA in July 1954. Juan O’Gorman is beside Frida, Diego behind her.
83.On her deathbed.
84.Diego flanked by Lázaro Cárdenas (left) and Andrés Iduarte following the hearse to the crematorium. Photo courtesy Excelsior Archive.
85.Frida’s bed, Frida Kahlo Museum. Photo Raúl Salinas.
Other black-and-white illustrations
Part Titles
I.Frida as a child. Photograph by Guillermo Kahlo.
II.Frida in 1926. Photograph by Guillermo Kahlo.
III.Frida and Diego in 1931. Photograph by Peter Juley.
IV.Frida in the mid-1930s. Photograph by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
V.Frida in 1939. Photograph by Nickolas Muray.
VI.Frida about 1953. Photograph by Bernice Kolko.
Pages from Frida’s diary: pages here and here.
INDEX
Abbot, Jere, here
Academy of San Carlos, here, here
Ageloff, Sylvia, here
Agrarian Leader Zapata (Rivera), here
Alvarez Bravo, Lola, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel, here, here, here
American Hospital (Paris), here, here
Amor, Inés, here, here, here
Amor, Pita, here, here
Anahuacalli, here, here, here, here
Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas, here, here, here
Anti-mural campaign
Detroit, here
New York, here
Arensberg, Walter G., here, here, here
Arias Viñas, Ricardo, here, here
Armida, Machila, here, here
Art of Frida Kahlo. See Kahlo, Frida, art of
Art of This Century Gallery, here
“Arts and Their Revolutionary Role in Culture” (Rivera), here
Asúnsulo, María, here, here
Atl, Doctor, here, here, here
Avila Camacho, President Manuel, here
Ballad of the Proletarian Revolution mural series (Rivera), here
Bambi, here
Barr, Alfred H., Jr., here
BeHar, Roberto, here
Beloff, Angelina, here, here
, here
Bender, Albert M., here, here
Berggruen, Heinz, here
Best-Mangard, Adolfo, here
Blanch, Lucile, here, here, here
Bloch, Lucienne, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Bloch, Suzanne, here, here, here
Bohus, Irene, here, here, here, here
Boston Institute of Contemporary Arts, here
Boytler, Arcady, here, here
Brenner, Anita, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Breton, André, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
catalogue essay for Levy exhibit, here, here
Breton, Jacqueline (Mrs. André), here, here, here, here, here
Brick Kilns, The (Kahlo), here
Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened, The (Kahlo), here
Broken Column, The (Kahlo), here, here, here, here, here
Bus, The (Kahlo), here
Bustamente, Octavio, here, here
Caballera Sevilla, Carmen, here
Cachuchas, here, here, here, here, here
Cadavre exquis, here
Caimito de Guayabal, here
Calas, Nicolas, here
Calderón, Antonio (grandfather) here, here
Calderón y Gonzalez, Matilde. See Kahlo, Matilde Calderón de
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, here
California School of Fine Arts, here, here, here
Calles, President Plutarco Elías, here, here, here, here
Campos, Isabel, here, here, here
Campos, Olga, here, here, here, here
Cárdenas, President Lázaro, here, here, here, here, here, here
Cardoza y Aragón, Luis, here
Caso, Antonio, here, here, here
Castro, Rosa, here, here, here, here
Chapingo mural. See National Agricultural School mural (Rivera)
Chávez, Carlos, here, here, here, here
Chicago World’s Fair mural, here, here
“Chong Lee.” See Lira, Miguel N.
Chucho, here, here, here
“Chucho Paisajes.” See Ríos y Valles, Jesús
Circle, The (Kahlo), here, here
Colegio Nacional, here
Colle, Pierre, here, here
gallery, here, here, here, here
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