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DIEGO RIVERA

Name: Diego Rivera                                                                 
Born: December 8, 1886 Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico                             
Died: November 24, 1957 Mexico City, Mexico                                       
                                                                                   
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957, born Diego Maria de la         
Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y           
Rodriguez in Guanajuato, Gto.) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active       
communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo. Rivera's large wall works in fresco         
helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera     
painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New   
York City. His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in       
New York City was their second.