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).
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.