The Fruits of Labor

Diego Rivera Mexican
Printer George C. Miller American
Publisher E. Weyhe

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 692

Rivera’s solo exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which closed in late January 1932, introduced his work to new audiences and created an appetite for his prints. In early spring of that year, at George Miller’s printshop in New York, he worked on a group of five lithographs, including this one. The print represents a section of the mural Rivera had painted at the Ministry of Education in Mexico City between 1923 and 1928. He was drawn to working with lithographic crayon because of its directness and its capacity to produce nuanced surface effects.



La exposición individual de Rivera celebrada en el Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York, que se clausuró a finales de enero de 1932, dio a conocer su obra a nuevos públicos y creó una demanda considerable de sus estampas. A principios de la primavera del mismo año, en el taller de impresión que George Miller tenía en Nueva York, Rivera trabajó en un grupo de cinco litografías del que esta obra forma parte. La estampa representa una sección del mural que pintó en la Secretaría de Educación Pública de Ciudad de México entre 1923 y 1928. Rivera se sentía atraído por el trabajo con el lápiz litográfico por su inmediatez y su capacidad de crear efectos superficiales matizados.

The Fruits of Labor, Diego Rivera (Mexican, Guanajuato 1886–1957 Mexico City), Lithograph

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