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Frida Kahlo
[Mexican Painter, 1907-1954]
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Born July 6, 1907 in the town of Coyoacán in Mexico, Frida Kahlo survived many difficult events in her life, including contracting polio as a child, a long recovery from a serious car accident, two failed marriages, and several miscarriages.
She used these experiences, combined with strong Mexican and Native American cultural influences, to create highly personal paintings. Kahlo used personal symbolism mixed with Surrealism to express her suffering through her work. A viewer might classify her paintings as Surrealism or Magic Realism, but she considered her art to be realistic.
Kahlo died July 13, 1954 of pulmonary embolism. |
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish) 
11 paintings
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin NEW!
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky
Frida Kahlo at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Frida Kahlo: Notas Sobre una Vida (Notes on a Life)
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Photographs of the artist from a 2007 exhibition
The Jewish Museum, New York City
My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree), 1936 (interactive feature)
Virtual Museum of Canada
Mi nana y yo, 1937
Virtual Museum of Canada
Las dos Fridas (The Two Fridas), 1939
Virtual Museum of Canada
Naturaleza muerta con sandias (Still Life with Watermelon), 1953
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frida Kahlo in the Artchive
19 paintings
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
6 paintings
Frida Kahlo at ImageNETion
The Two Fridas
MyStudios
Fruits of the Earth, 1938
Roots, 1943
Self Portrait, 1940
Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947
Frida Kahlo at The Athenaeum
7 works online
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Self-Portrait, 1932
Web Sites About the Artist:
Frida Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts
Lots of information about the artist, but few images
Frida Kahlo Fans
Other Web Sites:
Arte Latinoamericano
My dress hangs here, 1933-38
Recuerdo, 1937
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray: 72 photographs
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries
4 paintings online (scroll down)
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo
Raices (Roots)
Protest and Persuasion
Self Portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States, 1932
Women Artists from the Medieval Period to the Present
Diego in My Thoughts, 1943
Self-Portrait, 1922
Dona Rosita Morillo, 1944
Two Women, 1929
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frida Kahlo
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
Self-portrait with Necklace, 1933
Artnet Magazine
Weeping Coconuts, 1951
Artnet Magazine
Still Life with Prickly Pears, 1938
Artnet Magazine
Portrait of Christina, My Sister, 1928
Artnet Magazine
Self Portrait with Curly Hair, 1934
Artnet Magazine
Diego on my Mind, 1943
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Las Mujeres
Biography
The Times Newspaper, London, UK
"How did the small, dark, moustachioed woman who scowls from the self-portraits become an icon? ..."
Multimedia:
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS) NEW!
An interview with Salma Hayek about the movie Frida
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