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Diego Rivera

Study for The Conquest of Air,

Maker

  • Diego Rivera

Title

Study for The Conquest of Air

Medium

pencil, graphite

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Graphite on tracing paper

Techniques

  • Graphite on tracing paper

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.

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

68.026

Study for The Conquest of Air

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

Signed and dated, LR: Diego Rivera. 1932.

Publications

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

Exhibition History

Modernism in the Americas

June 20 - August 31, 2003

"De Donde Vengo"

March 15 - April 28, 1996

Early Modernism in America

February 24 - April 16, 1995

Migrations

February 21 - April 26, 1992

Del Nuevo Mundo

June 17 - September 4, 1988

The Nancy Sayles Day Collection

January 4 - February 6, 1977

Raid the Icebox 1 with Andy Warhol

April 23 - June 30, 1970
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