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OLLI at Duke Fall 2019 Kris Door, lecturer kristinedoor.com North Carolina Museum of Art Lectures: Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30 Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexican Modernism October 16 Diego Rivera

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OLLI at Duke Fall 2019Kris Door, lecturer kristinedoor.comNorth Carolina Museum of Art Lectures: Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexican ModernismOctober 16 Diego Rivera

OLLI at Duke Fall 2019Kris Door, lecturer kristinedoor.comNorth Carolina Museum of Art Lectures: Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexican ModernismOctober 16 Diego Rivera

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Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Diego (1886 – 1957), 1937 The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art

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The Threshing Floor, 1904, Oil on canvas, Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico

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Self-portrait with Broad-Brimmed Hat, 1907 Museo Dolores Olmedo

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Night Scene in Avila, 1907, Oil on canvas, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Portrait of Angelina Beloff, 1909Oil on canvas, Collection of the State of Veracrus, Xalapa, Mexico

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Notre Dame de Paris, 1909Private collection

Breton Girl, 1909

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View of Toledo, 1912, Oil on canvas, private collection

El Greco, View of Toledo, 1596-1600Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum

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Portrait of the Adolfo Best Maugard, 1913Oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Robert Delaunay, Eiffel Tower, 1911Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany

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Still Life, 1913, Tempera on canvasHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Adoration of the Virgin, 1913Private collection

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The Café Terrace, 1915Oil on canvasMetropolitan Museum

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Last Hour, 1915, Oil on canvasThe Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection

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Juan Gris (Spanish), 1887-1927, Fantômas, 1915, National Gallery, D.C

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Motherhood, Angelina and the Child Diego, c. August 1916, Oil on canvasMuseo de Arte Carrillo Gil.

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Diego RiveraSunflowers, 1943, Oil on canvas, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collec]on of Mexican Art

José Clemente OrozcoFigure Study (for murals at the Na]onal Preparatory School), 1926, Charcoal on brown paper

David Alfaro Siqueiros Siqueiros by Siqueiros, 1930Oil on canvas

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Creation, 1922-23, Encaustic, National Preparatory School auditorium in Mexico City

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Giotto, Death of St. Francis, 1300Fresco, Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Assisi

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3rd floor of the Secretariat of Public Education building, Mexico City

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Agrarian Leader Zapata, 1931Fresco on reinforced cement in agalvanized-steel frameworkThe Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Landscape with Cacti, 1931, Oil on canvas, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection

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Copalli, 1937, Oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum

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Rivera Court in the Detroit Ins]tute of Arts, fresco murals, 1932 -1933

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Detroit Industry, North Wall, 1932-33, Detroit Institute of Arts

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Metropolis, 1927 German Expressionist, Directed by: Fritz Lang

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Tullio Crali (Italian, 1910-2000), Cityscape, Oil on panel, 1939

Attacco Aereo, 1935, Oil on panel

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Giacomo Balla (Italian) 1871-1958Velocity of an Automobile, 1913

Umberto Boccioni (Italian) 1882-1916,Simultaneous Visions, 1911-1912,Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany.

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Charles Scheeler (American) 1883-1965American Landscape, 1930, MOMA

River Rouge Plant, 1932Whitney Museum of Art

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Steam Turbine, 1939, Oil on CanvasButler Institute of American Art - Youngstown, OH

Criss-Crossed Conveyors: River Rouge Plant, 1927Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum

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Upper Deck, 1928-29, Oil on canvasFogg Museum, Harvard

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Detroit Industry, South Wall, 1932-33, Detroit Institute of Arts

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Poster summarizing Federal Art Project employment and activities (November 1, 1936)

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Thomas Hart Benton, “America Today” 1930–31 / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“Instruments of Power” from America Today, 1930–31 / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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"Demonstraaon," by Ben Shahn, 1933, Harvard Art Museum

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Diego Rivera working on mural in Rockefeller Center in 1933. Photo by Jose Rafael Bejarano. Silver print

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The Weaver, 1936, Tempera and oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago

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Modesta, 1937, Oil on canvas, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art

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Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio Museum

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Frida Kahlo's family home, the Casa Azúl, or "Blue House"

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Portrait of Natasha Gelman, 1943, Oil on canvas, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collec]on of Mexican Art

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Calla Lily Vendor, 1943, Oil on Masonite, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art

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The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art

Sunflowers, 1943, Oil on canvas, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art

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Irene Estrella, Oil on canvas, 1946, MFA Boston

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"Gloriosa Victoria" (Glorious Victory) - Diego Rivera. Oil on linen. 1954. Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia.

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Staff from Guatemala's Na]onal Palace of Culture, and experts from Russia's Puskin Museum, uncrate Rivera's pain]ng in prepara]on for the exhibit "Oh Revolu]on! 1944-2010 Mul]ple Visions," held in Guatemala's capital in 2010.

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