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Diego Rivera

Study for The Conquest of Air

Description

Maker

Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957

Title

Study for The Conquest of Air

Year

1932

Medium

  • Graphite on tracing paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Graphite on tracing paper

Materials

pencil, graphite

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

34.9 x 130.2 cm (13 3/4 x 51 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated, LR: Diego Rivera. 1932.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

68.026

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Projects & Publications

Publications

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The First America: Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art: An Exhibition of Works from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Alt Author: Author Stringer, John, New England Foundation for the Arts.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modernism in the Americas
Jun 20, 2003 – Aug 31, 2003
"De Donde Vengo"
Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
Mar 15, 1996 – Apr 28, 1996
Early Modernism in America
Feb 24, 1995 – Apr 16, 1995
Migrations
Latin American Art and the Modernist Imagination
Feb 21, 1992 – Apr 26, 1992
Del Nuevo Mundo
The Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art
Jun 17, 1988 – Sep 04, 1988
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Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957
b. in Guanajuato, Mexico)
Study for The Conquest of Air, 1932
Graphite on tracing paper
34.9 x 130.2 cm (13 3/4 x 51 1/4 inches)
Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art 68.026

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