Tag Archives: Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera and The Golden Gate International Expo

Posted on March 24, 2011

Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) came to the Golden Gate Expo during it’s second year as part of the “Art in Action” exhibit. From June to September 1940(three months after the Fair actually closed), in front of 1000′s of onlookers, Rivera painted a 10-panel mural called Pan American Unity.

It is in this mural, currently housed at the City College of San Francisco, where you can see many renown figures – both historic, infamous, and celebrated in their day – George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, emancipators John Brown, Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo, and Simon Bolivar. …

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San Francisco Art Through the Decades: the 1930s

Posted on February 23, 2011

Here starts a ten part blog series that chronicles the evolution of public art over the past several decades in the Bay Area, beginning in the harrowing and dramatic 1930’s. As unemployment surged to 25% in the US, people eagerly sought distraction to remove themselves from the crushing awareness of the Great Depression. Correctly sensing the collective anxiety of the country, Franklin Roosevelt made a powerful move to catalyze a surge of public art by enacting the Public Works Art Program. …

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What was the Billy Rose Aquacade?

Posted on July 30, 2010

A compendium of resources about San Francisco’s Golden Gate International Exhibition 1939-40 …

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