Zapatista Landscape (1915)
When Mexican artist Diego Rivera traveled to Paris, he encountered fertile artistic surroundings for developing a distinct Cubist style in portraiture. The Meadows Museum has organized an exhibition, Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917, which aims to provide a new perspective on this lesser known period of his career. The museum’s permanent collection includes Rivera’s Portrait of Ilya Ehrenburg (1915). Algur Meadows purchased this portrait of a Russian writer in 1968 – one of the few paintings by a non-Spanish artist he bought for the museum. The exhibit runs June 21-September 20.