Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was born December 8, 1886, in Mexico. He painted murals across two countries — Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, then San Francisco, Detroit, New York — helping establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art. In 1931, the Museum of Modern Art gave him a retrospective; the next year he began the 27-panel Detroit Industry Murals. He married four times, including to Frida Kahlo, a volatile pairing that lasted until her death. His first child, a son, died at two. The Mexican governm…