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Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957, born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez in Guanajuato, Gto.) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo. Rivera's painting in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New York City. His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City was their second.

In those years, Paris was witnessing the beginning of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From 1913 to 1917, Rivera enthusiastically embraced this new school of art. Around 1917, inspired by Paul Cézanne's paintings, Rivera shifted toward Post-Impressionism with simple forms and large patches of vivid colors. His paintings began to attract attention, and he was able to display them at several exhibitions.

In 1930, Rivera accepted an invitation to the United States, where he painted several significant Diego Rivera Oil Painting. After arriving in San Francisco in November, he painted a mural for the Stock Exchange and a fresco for the California School of Fine Art, which is now in the San Francisco Art Institute). In November 1931, Rivera had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Rivera's wife, Frida Kahlo accompanied him to New York for the opening of the MoMA show, and though she might have a more recognizable name, many experts in the art world would be quick to name her husband as the better painter. Between 1932 and 1933, he completed a famous series of twenty-seven fresco panels entitled Detroit Industry on the walls of an inner court at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

His mural Man at the Crossroads, begun in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York City, was removed after a furor erupted in the press over a portrait of Vladimir Lenin it contained. As a result of the negative publicity, a further commission was cancelled to paint a mural for an exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. In December 1933, Rivera returned to Mexico, and he repainted Man at the Crossroads in 1934 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This surviving version was called Man, Controller of the Universe. On June 5, 1940 Rivera returned for the last time to the United States to paint a ten-panel mural Diego Rivera Oil Paintings for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Pan American Unity was unveiled November 29, 1940. The mural and its archives reside at City College of San Francisco.

Rivera's work is housed in public collections in museums such as Arizona State University Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Arthur Ross Gallery (University of Pennsylvania), the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (UK), the DePaul University Museum (Chicago), the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Fundación Proa (Buenos Aires), the Guilford College Art Gallery (North Carolina), Harvard University Art Museums, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Brazil), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona), the San Diego Museum of Art and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Iran).