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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Open-Air School

Open-Air School

1932
(Mexican, 1886–1957)
(American, 1894–1966)
publisher
Image: 31.5 x 41.1 cm (12 3/8 x 16 3/16 in.)
© Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Williams 8
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This print belongs to a series of five that Diego Rivera was commissioned to create in 1932 by New York's Weyhe Gallery representing details from mural projects in Mexico.

Description

In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, the country's citizens fought for social reform and civil liberties. This print presents an idealized vision of universal public education, one of their central goals. A teacher holds a book and instructs a group of attentive students while behind the group, farmers tend to the land, suggesting the important role of agriculture in Mexico.
  • after 1932-1941
    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1941-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-August 2, 2020).
    Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964).
  • {{cite web|title=Open-Air School|url=false|author=Diego Rivera, George C. Miller, Weyhe Gallery|year=1932|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1941.510