List of works by Diego Rivera
This is a list of works by Diego Rivera (8 December 1886, Guanajuato – 24 November 1957, Mexico City). He was a Modern painter, famous for his social realist murals. This list is split into two distinct era's in Rivera's work, the formative years between 1886 until 1920; and the social realism years between 1921 until his death in 1957.

Diego Rivera with Xoloitzcuintle dog
Rivera is also known for his marriage to Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907, Mexico City – 13 July 1954, Mexico City), also a celebrated Mexican painter.[1]
Paintings By Rivera
1886–1920 Formative years
Image | Title (English) | Year | Location | Dimensions (cm) | Medium |
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Classical Head | 1898 | 48.5 x 39.2 | |||
The Threshing Floor | 1904 | Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico | 100 x 114.6 | ||
Head Of A Goat | 1905 | Rafael Coronel Collection, Cuernavaca, Mexico | 9.5 x 12.5 | ||
Night Scene in Avila | 1907 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | |||
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Self-Portrait | 1907 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | ||
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Diego Rivera - Avila Morning (The Ambles Valley) | 1908 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | 97 x 123 | |
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Street in Ávila (Ávila Landscape) | 1908 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | 129 x 141 | |
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House over the Bridge | 1909 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | 147 x 120 | |
Notre Dame de Paris | 1909 | 113 x 144 | |||
Portrait of Angelina Beloff | 1909 | ||||
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El Picador | 1909 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | 177 x 113 | |
Breton Girl | 1910 | Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico | 80 x 100 | ||
Head Of A Breton Woman | 1910 | Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico | 141 x 129 | ||
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Diego Rivera - After the Storm (The Grounded Ship) | 1910 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | 120.7 x 146.7 | |
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Landscape | 1911 | |||
View Of Toledo | 1912 | 91 x 112 | |||
Landscape at Toledo | 1913 | Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Mexico | 46 x 32 | ||
Portrait Of Oscar Miestchaninoff | 1913 | Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico | 120 x 147 | ||
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Portrait Of The Adolfo Best Maugard | 1913 | Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico | 161.5 x 227.5 | |
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Woman At A Well | 1913 | Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City | ||
The Adoration Of The Virgin | 1913 | ||||
Still Life | 1913 | Hermitage, St. Petersburg | 84 x 65 | Tempera on canvas | |
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The Sun Breaking through the Mist | 1913 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, | 83.5 x 59 | |
The Woman at the Well | 1913 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | 145 x 125 | ||
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Portrait of Two Women | 1914 | Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock | ||
La Tour Eiffel | 1914 | 92 x 115 | |||
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The Alarm Clock | 1914 | Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City | ||
Sailor at Breakfast | 1914 | 117 x 72 | |||
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Young Man with a Fountain Pen | 1914 | 79.5 x 63.5 | ||
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Portrait of Kawashima and Foujita | 1914 | 78.5 x 74 | ||
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Zapata-style Landscape | 1915 | Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico | 145 x 125 | |
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Seated Woman (Women with the Body of a Guitar) | 1915 | Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City | ||
Portrait de Martin Luis Guzman | 1915 | 72.3 x 59.3 | |||
Zapatista Landscape. The Guerrilla | 1915 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | |||
Portrait of Ramon Gomez de la Serna | 1915 | ||||
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El Rastro | 1915 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, | 27.5 x 38.5 | |
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Portrait of Marevna | Art institute of Chicago | 145.7 x 112.7 | ||
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Motherhood Angelina and the Child Diego | 1916 | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City | 132 x 86 | |
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Urban Landscape | 1916 | Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City | ||
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Still Life with Tulips | 1916 | 67.8 x 53.7 | ||
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Still Life with Utensils | 1917 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, | 71 x 54 | |
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Knife and Fruit in Front of the Window | 1917 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, | 91.8 x 92.4 | |
Still Life with Ricer also known as Still Life with Garlic Press | 1918 | ||||
Still Life | 1918 | ||||
The Outskirts Of Paris | 1918 | ||||
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The Mathematician | 1918 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, |
1921–1957 Social Realism
Image | Title (English) | Year | Location | Dimensions (cm) | Medium |
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Creation | 1922–1923 | San Ildefonso College, Mexico City, | Fresco, Gold leaf | ||
Bather of Tehuantepec | 1923 | 63 x 52 | Oil on Canvas | ||
Entry into the Mine | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | 474 x 366 | Fresco | |
Exit from the Mine | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
The Embrace | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
Tehuana Women | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | 476 x 214 | Fresco | |
The Liberation of The Peon | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
The New School | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
Good Friday on the Santa Anita Canal | 1923 | 456 x 356 | Fresco | ||
The Sugar Mill | 1923 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | 482 x 366 | Fresco | |
The Festival of The Distribution of The Land | 1923–1924 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
The Festival of The First of May | 1923–1924 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
The Market | 1923–1924 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
The Maize Festival | 1923–1924 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | 438 x 239 | Fresco | |
The Sacrificial Offering Day of the Dead | 1923–1924 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | 415 x 237 | Fresco | |
Alliance of the Peasant and the Industrial Worker | 1924 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
The Day of the Dead | 1924 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
Partition of the Land. | 1924 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
Flower Festival | 1925 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) | 147.3 x 120.7 | Fresco | |
The Exploiters | 1926 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
The Abundant Earth | 1926 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
Revelation of the Way | 1926 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
Triumph of the Revolution | 1926 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
The Organization of The Agrarian Movement | 1926 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
The Mechanization of The Country | 1926 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | Fresco | ||
The Land's Bounty Rightfully Possessed | 1926 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | Fresco | ||
Indian Boy and Indian Woman with Corn Stalks | 1926-27 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |||
Subterranean Forces | 1926-27 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |||
Maturation | 1926-27 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |||
The Blood of the Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth | 1926-27 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | 244 x 491 | ||
The Liberated Earth with The Powers of Nature Controlled by Man | 1926-27 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | 692 x 598 | ||
The Perpetual Renewal of the Revolutionary Struggle | 1926-27 | Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | 354 x 357 | ||
Cargadora With Dog | 1927 | Watercolour | |||
Death of the Capitalist | 1928 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |||
Night of the Rich | 1928 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |||
Our Bread | 1928 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |||
The Learned | 1928 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |||
The Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect | 1923–1928 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |||
Wall Street Banquet | 1928 | Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |||
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The Arsenal | 1928 | Courtyard of the Fiestas, Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico City, Mexico | Fresco | |
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Entering the City | 1930 | Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca, Mexico | Fresco | |
My Godfather's Sons (Portrait of Modesto and Jesus Sanchez) | 1930 | Fomento Cultural Banamex, Mexico City | |||
Zapata's Horse | 1930 | ||||
Conquest and Revolution | 1930-31 | ||||
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Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees | 1930-31 | University of California, Berkeley, Stern Hall, Berkeley, California | 100 x 265 | Fresco |
Allegory of California | 1930-31 | The City Club of San Francisco, Stock Exchange Tower, San Francisco, California | Fresco | ||
Zapata | 1930-31 | The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos | 214 x 89 | ||
The Making of a Fresco, Showing The Building of a City | 1931 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California | Fresco | ||
Frozen Assets | 1931 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | 188.5 x 239 | ||
Edsel B. Ford | 1932 | Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan | 125.1 x 97.8 | ||
Detroit Industry, South Wall | 1932–1933 | Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan | Fresco | ||
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Detroit Industry, North Wall | 1933 | Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan | Fresco | |
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Man at the Crossroads / Man, Controller of the Universe | 1933-34 | Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City | ||
The Ancient Indian World | 1929 -35 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | |||
The World of Today and Tomorrow | 1929 -35 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | |||
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The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future (main wall) | 1929 -35 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | ||
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The History of Mexico | 1929 -35 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | ||
Delfina and Dimas | 1935 | 24 x 31 | tempera on masonite | ||
Flower Carrier | 1935 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) | 121.9 x 121.3 | ||
The Pinole Seller | 1936 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | 81.4 x 60.7 | ||
Indian Woman Spinning / Indigena Tejiendo | 1936 | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona | 81.3 x 59.7 | ||
Carnival of Mexican Life. Dictatorship | 1936 | Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City | |||
Copalli | 1937 | Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, New York | 91.44 x 121.92 | ||
Portrait of Lupe Marin | 1938 | Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City | 171.3 x 122.3 | ||
Portrait of Dolores Del Rio | 1938 | ||||
The Lady in White | 1939 | ||||
Portrait of Madesta and Inesita | 1939 | 99 x 69 | |||
Dancer Resting | 1939 | Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | 95 x 166 | ||
Pan American Unity | 1940 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (was previously located at City College of San Francisco, Diego Rivera Theater, but moved in 2020) | 670 × 2,260 | Fresco | |
The Hands of Dr Moore | 1940 | San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California | 45.8 x 55.9 | ||
Portrait of Paulette Goddard | 1940-41 | ||||
Self-Portrait Dedicated to Irene Rich | 1941 | Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton, Massachusetts | 61 x 43 | ||
Portrait of Carlos Pellicer | 1942 | 55 x 43 | |||
Portrait of Natasha Zakólkowa Gelman | 1943 | 115 x 153 | |||
Nude with Calla Lilies | 1944 | 157 x 124 | |||
The Day of the Dead | 1944 | Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City | 91 x 73.5 | ||
The Milliner. Portrait of Henri de Chatillon | 1944 | ||||
Portrait of Adalgisa Nery | 1945 | ||||
Portrait of Cuca Bustamante | 1946 | Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, | 158 x 122.5 | ||
Portrait of Mrs Elisa Saldivar de Gutierrez Roldan | |||||
Portrait of Linda Christian | 1947 | ||||
The Temptations of Saint Anthony | 1947 | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, | 90 x 110 | ||
Portrait of an Actress | 1948 | ||||
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park | 1948 | Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City | |||
Retrato de María Félix | |||||
Portrait of Evangelina Rivas de De la Chica, The lady from Oaxaca | 1949 | ||||
Portrait of Senora Dona Evangelina Rivas de LaChica | 1949 | ||||
Portrait of Ruth Rivera | 1949 | 199 x 100.5 | |||
Colonisation, 'The Great City of Tenochtitlan' | 1945- 52 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | 971 x 492 | ||
The Huastec Civilisation | 1950 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | |||
The Papermakers | 1950 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | |||
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Totonac Civilization | 1950 | Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | ||
Pre-Hispanic America | 1950 | ||||
Figure Symbolizing the African Race | 1951 | ||||
Figure Symbolizing the Asiatic Race | 1951 | ||||
The Hands of Nature Offering Water | 1951 | ||||
Portrait of the Young Girl Elenita Carrillo Flores | 1952 | 55 x 105 | |||
The Banana Leaf Loader | 1953 | 50 x 40 | |||
The History of Medicine in Mexico: The People's Demand for Better Health | 1953 | ||||
Portrait of Sra. Dona Elena Flores de Carrillo | 1953 | 140 x 221.5 | |||
The Painter's Studio | 1954 | 150 x 178 | |||
Evening Twilight at Acapulco | 1956 | 30 x 40 | |||
Portrait of Silvia Pinal | 1956 | ||||
The Hammock | 1956 | ||||
May Day Procession in Moscow | 1956 | 135.2 x 108.3 | |||
Lenin in 1922 | Unknown | ||||
Sugar Plantation, Tealtenango, Morelos and Indian Slaves in the Gold Mines | Unknown | ||||
The Architect, Jesus T. Acevedo | Unknown | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City | |||
Portrait of Marevna | Unknown | ||||
The Flower Seller | Unknown |
References
- "Diego Rivera, Mexican painter". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
- "Wikiart". Archived from the original on 2020-10-11.
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