About the Artwork
Detroit Industry, South Wall
1932-1933
Diego M. Rivera
1886 - 1957
Mexican
Unknown
Fresco
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)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Edsel B. Ford
33.10.S
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 and dated, upper register left side panel, on pharmacist's name plate: Diego Rivera Sep. 20, 1932
Inscribed, South wall lower register lower right of center panel (on sheet of paper): These frescoes | painted between July | 25 1932 and March 13 | 1933 while Dr. William | R. Valentiner was direc-| tor of the Art Institute | are the gift to the City | of Detroit of Mr. Edsel | B. Ford, President of the Art Commission.
Provenance
1933-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New Haven, 2020, pp. 96, 100-101 (repr.) pl. 54; pp. 208-210.
Coffey, Mary K. Orozco's American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race. Durham and London, 2020, pp. 169-176, p. 172 (repr.) (fig. 3.24).
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. 3.1, ill.).
Oles, James, ed. Diego Rivera's America. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 2022, p. 165-171; p. 165 (fig. 2 detail [Pharmaceutics]); p. 178 (pl. 154, ill. detail [Production of Automobile Exterior and Final Assembly]).
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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, South Wall, 1932-1933, fresco. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edsel B. Ford, 33.10.S.
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