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Frida Kahlo
[Mexican Painter, 1907-1954]
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Born July 6, 1907 in the town of Coyoacán in Mexico, Frida Kahlo survived many difficult events in her life, including contracting polio as a child, a long recovery from a serious car accident, two failed marriages, and several miscarriages.
She used these experiences, combined with strong Mexican and Native American cultural influences, to create highly personal paintings. Kahlo used personal symbolism mixed with Surrealism to express her suffering through her work. A viewer might classify her paintings as Surrealism or Magic Realism, but she considered her art to be realistic.
Kahlo died July 13, 1954 of pulmonary embolism. |
Frida Kahlo Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
La Casa Azul, Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, Mexico City (in Spanish)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish) 11 paintings
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky
Frida Kahlo at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Frida Kahlo: Notas Sobre una Vida (Notes on a Life)
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Photographs of the artist from a 2007 exhibition
The Jewish Museum, New York City My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree), 1936 (interactive feature)
Virtual Museum of Canada Mi nana y yo, 1937
Virtual Museum of Canada Las dos Fridas (The Two Fridas), 1939
Virtual Museum of Canada Naturaleza muerta con sandias (Still Life with Watermelon), 1953
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frida Kahlo Website about Frida Kahlo and her paintings
Frida Kahlo at The Artchive 19 paintings
Frida Kahlo at The Athenaeum 7 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 6 paintings
MyStudios Fruits of the Earth, 1938 Roots, 1943 Self Portrait, 1940 Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947
Rasiel's Wallpapers (Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
USC Annenberg School for Communication Self-Portrait, 1932
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Frida Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts Lots of information about the artist, but few images
Frida Kahlo Fans
Arte Latinoamericano My dress hangs here, 1933-38 Recuerdo, 1937
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray: 72 photographs
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo Raices (Roots)
Protest and Persuasion Self Portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States, 1932
Women Artists from the Medieval Period to the Present Diego in My Thoughts, 1943 Self-Portrait, 1922 Dona Rosita Morillo, 1944 Two Women, 1929
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frida Kahlo Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Artnet Magazine Self-portrait with Necklace, 1933
Artnet Magazine Still Life with Prickly Pears, 1938
Artnet Magazine Weeping Coconuts, 1951
Artnet Magazine Portrait of Christina, My Sister, 1928
Artnet Magazine Self Portrait with Curly Hair, 1934
Artnet Magazine Diego on my Mind, 1943
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
California Literary Review 2008 review, "Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art"
Las Mujeres Biography
The New Yorker "Frida Kahlo retrospective at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis", 2007 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Times Newspaper, London, UK "How did the small, dark, moustachioed woman who scowls from the self-portraits become an icon? ..."
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature: Frida Kahlo's Frieda y Diego Rivera
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature on Frida Kahlo
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS) An interview with Salma Hayek about the movie Frida
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