Detroit Industry, North Wall

1932-1933

Diego M. Rivera Mexican, 1886 - 1957

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Rivera Court, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Detroit Industry, North Wall

Artwork Date 1932-1933

Artist Diego M. Rivera

Life Dates 1886 - 1957

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Mexican

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Fresco

Dimensions Image (upper register, left side): 101 1/2 inches × 84 inches (257.8 × 213.4 cm) Image (upper register, center panel): 106 inches × 45 feet (269.2 cm × 13 m 71.6 cm) Image (upper register, right side): 101 1/2 inches × 84 inches (257.8 × 213.4 cm) Image (middle register, left side): 26 3/4 inches × 73 inches (67.9 × 185.4 cm) Image (middle register, center panel): 52 1/4 inches × 45 feet (132.7 cm × 13 m 71.6 cm) Image (middle register, right side): 26 3/4 inches × 73 inches (67.9 × 185.4 cm) Image (lower panel): 17 feet 8 1/2 inches × 45 feet (5 m 39.8 cm × 13 m 71.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Edsel B. Ford

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 33.10.N

Copyright ARS represents the Bank of Mexico on Rivera and Kahlo’s works of art with a few exceptions. Our murals are one of the exceptions and they are in public domain when published in the United States.

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, upper center register right side panel, lower right corner: Diego Rivera Nov 29, 1932 Signed and dated, lower center panel, lower left corner on machinery: Diego Rivera 1-3-33

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1933-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New Haven, 2020, pp. 96, 98-99 (ill.) pl. 53; pp. 208-210, (ill.) (fig. 1); (det. ill. cover).

Coffey, Mary K. Orozco's American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race. Durham and London, 2020, pp. 169-176, p. 173 (repr.) (fig. 3.25); p. 174 (det. repr. fig. 3.26).

Moving Pictures: The Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera. London, BBC4, 2020 (digital audio file) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000pm01 (Released November 23, 2020).

O'Sullivan, Lucy. Visual Culture 3. Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo: Post-Revolutionary Body Politics 1922-1965. Cambridge: Legenda, 2022, pp. 125-127, p. 126 (fig. 3.2, ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

ARS represents the Bank of Mexico on Rivera and Kahlo’s works of art with a few exceptions. Our murals are one of the exceptions and they are in public domain when published in the United States.

Diego M. Rivera, Detroit Industry, North Wall, 1932-1933, fresco. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edsel B. Ford, 33.10.N.