March 19, 2023

Diego Rivera and his wife are the subjects of Frida Kahlo’s “Frieda and Diego Rivera,” 1931, oil on canvas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender. Kahlo painted herself as a more diminutive figure than her husband, who was at the time considered one of the world’s greatest artists. (Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)