Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection and Mexican Modernism from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection

Few artists have captured the public’s imagination with the force of painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) and painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886–1957). Featuring over 30 masterful works by Kahlo and Rivera from the renowned Gelman Foundation Collection in Mexico City, along with works from NSU’s own superb Mexican Modernism collection (a gift of Stanley and Pearl Goodman), this exhibition speaks of these artists’ fierce loyalty to and pride in Mexico and the ideals of its 1910 revolution. Among the works featured in the exhibition are Kahlo’s Autorretrato con Monos (Self Portrait with Monkeys), 1943, Diego en mi Pensamiento (Diego on My Mind), 1943, Rivera’s Autorretrato (Self-Portrait), 1930, and Retratro de Natasha Gelman (Portrait of Natasha Gelman), 1943.
Highlights from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection (gift to NSU Museum of Art) include works by such masters as Jose Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Leonora Carrington, Rivera, and Kahlo. The exhibition will also inaugurate the Museum’s Stanley and Pearl Goodman Center for the Study of Latin American Art, the only such resource in the region, which will invite scholars and curators to research the collection and other areas of interest involving Latin American Art.