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The Fruits of Labor

The Fruits of Labor

Artist/Maker (Mexican, 1886–1957)
Date1932
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 16 9/16 × 11 13/16 in. (42.1 × 30 cm)
Sheet: 20 7/8 × 14 15/16 in. (53 × 37.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Leona E. Prasse from the Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection in honor of Ellen H. Johnson
Object number1978.50
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkMore Information
This lithograph reproduces one panel from Rivera's murals in the Ministry of Public Education, painted between 1923 and 1928. The entire mural of 124 frescoes spans 5,000 square feet. It helped earn Rivera international fame and validated the Mexican mural movement for artists outside the country. Above this panel in the painted mural a crimson banner proclaims, "Blessed is the tree that yields ripe fruits, it is worth a lot more than a mountain of pesos." The images in Rivera's murals were inspired by the impressive educational and agrarian reforms undertaken during the Obregón and Calles presidencies (1920 and 1928). Rivera revisited these murals in a lithograph series commissioned by New York's Weyhe Gallery.
Exhibition History
Representing the Revolution: Works on Paper by Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siquieros
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 16, 1999 - March 30, 1999 )
The Mexican Revolution in Prints and Paintings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 9, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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