A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts
2008Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole
240 pages (color)
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1907 Mexico City, Mexico - 1954 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Abstract painting-female themes.
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life... Read full biography
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist who was a Mexican national hero. She had... Read full biography
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist who was a Mexican national hero. She had known him since childhood and when he divorced his second wife, they embarked on a violent courtship. Both were temperamental and noisy Communists; she proudly pointed out that she had never been... Read full biography
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist who was a Mexican national hero. She had known him since childhood and when he divorced his second wife, they embarked on a violent courtship. Both were temperamental and noisy Communists; she proudly pointed out that she had never been expelled from the party as Diego was. He was gross (300 lbs.) and psychologically abusive (he seduced her younger sister, for instance). But the bisexual Frida retaliated with affairs of her own (with Leon Trotsky, for one, and the sculptor Isamu Noguchi,... Read full biography
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist who was a Mexican national hero. She had known him since childhood and when he divorced his second wife, they embarked on a violent courtship. Both were temperamental and noisy Communists; she proudly pointed out that she had never been expelled from the party as Diego was. He was gross (300 lbs.) and psychologically abusive (he seduced her younger sister, for instance). But the bisexual Frida retaliated with affairs of her own (with Leon Trotsky, for one, and the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and even some of the women with whom Rivera was dallying). Kahlo once called Rivera "the other accident" in her life, and she lamented h... Read full biography
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Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts & Crafts to Modern Architecture
2007Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl384 pages (color)Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer176 pages (color)Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996Barbara and Peter Toohil363 pages (color)The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970
1988Quirarte, Jacinto343 pages (color)Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
1984Herrera, Hayden502 pages