Frida Kahlo: Notas Sobre una Vida (Notes on a Life)

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2001

Introduction to the Online Exhibition

The Archives of American Art, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month 2001, pays tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and her enduring influence on American art. Photographs and letters selected from several Archives collections, including the papers of author and artist Florence Arquin, who lectured extensively on the art of Latin America during the 1940s and 1950s, painter and muralist Emmy Lou Packard, who lived with Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera for a time, writer John Weatherwax, photographer Nickolas Muray, and prominent collector and art patron Chester Dale, provide a glimpse into Kahlo's public and private life and reveal the relationships and events that impacted her life and her art.

Frida Kahlo in her patio, 1931. Photograph, b&w. 16 x 12 cm. Photographs of Artists - Collection I. Archives of American Art.