About This Artwork

Diego Rivera
Mexican, 1886-1957

The Weaver, 1936

Tempera and oil on canvas
66 x 106.7 cm (26 x 42 in.)
Signed lower right: Diego Rivera. 1936
Gift of Josephine Wallace KixMiller in memory of her mother, Julie F. Miller, who purchased the painting from the artist at his studio in Mexico in 1936, 1998.529

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Exposicion de Homenaje Nacional, Diego Rivera: 50 Años de Su Labor Artistica, (México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1951) as Hilando, no. 534, n.pag.

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y Las Artes, Diego Rivera: Caltálogo General de Obra de Caballete (México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1989).

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 111.

Ownership History

Diego Rivera; sold by him to Julie F. Miller, 1936; by descent to daughter, Josephine Wallace KixMiller, Englewood, Fla., 1998; given by her to the Art Institute, 1998.