Coffee with a Curator - Annette Norwood: "Frida & Mexico - Background & Connections" Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dali-related topics. The talk is presented by one of The Dali Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited speaker. Frida Kahlo and Mexico: Background and Connections We invite you to join us for a talk by Annette Norwood, Dali Museum Project Researcher, who will present information on Frida Kahlo’s family background, the area of Mexico where she lived, Mexico itself and some of its history. In doing so, Dr. Norwood will make connections between various people, places and events. Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dali-related topics. The talk is presented by one of The Dali Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited speaker. Frida Kahlo and Mexico: Background and Connections We invite you to join us for a talk by Annette Norwood, Dali Museum Project Researcher, who will present information on Frida Kahlo’s family background, the area of Mexico where she lived, Mexico itself and some of its history. In doing so, Dr. Norwood will make connections between various people, places and events. View live presentation: http://ow.ly/ojn030drQyJ For information on upcoming events at The Dali visit: http://thedali.org/events

1. Frida Kahlo and
Mexico:
Background and
Connections
Presented by
Annette Norwood, Ph.D.
Dalí Museum Project Researcher

2. Frida Kahlo
My Grandparents, My
Parents and I
1936

3. Frida, Age 2. Photo by
Guillermo Kahlo.

4. Isabel
González y
González
Antonio
Calderón

5. Johann Heinrich Jakob Kahlo
& Henriette Kaufmann Kahlo

6. Left to right: Élie Faure, Jean Charlot, unidentified
man, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Frances Flynn
Paine, 1931
“Mythologer, I said to
myself, perhaps
even mythomaniac!”
– Élie Faure, about Diego
Rivera

7. Frida, when she received her First
Communion
Frida Kahlo, Marxism Will Give
Health to the Sick, 1954

8. Frida painting a portrait of Guillermo Kahlo,
1951. Photo by Gisèle Freund (detail)
Guillermo Kahlo and María Luisa Kahlo
Cardeña (Frida’s half-sister), 1934

9. Wedding picture of Matilde
Calderón and Guillermo
Kahlo,1898
The Kahlo home in CoyoacánClockwise from left: Cristina,
Adriana, Matilde, and Frida

10. The Zócalo at 1:00 p.m. on October 23, 1925.
(September 17, 1925 was the date of Frida’s
accident – the bus in which she rode was hit
by a streetcar.)
Cámara de Diputados
(Chamber of Deputies), 1910
Photos of Mexico City by Guillermo
Kahlo

11. Self-portraits and
a painting by
Guillermo Kahlo

12. Guillermo Kahlo in his library

13. Frida took great care in
painting her mother’s
wedding dress.

14. Photos of Matilde Calderón

15. In this family photograph, Frida’s mother is
in the front row on the left. She is dressed
as a Tehuana (as are most others).
Map of Mexico, including Oaxaca

16. “The classic Mexican dress has been created by people
for people.” – Diego Rivera

17. Frida Kahlo
My Grandparents, My
Parents and I
1936

19. Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the
Borderline Between Mexico and
the United States, 1932
Frida Kahlo, Still Life with Parrot
and Flag, 1951

20. Current flag of Mexico, adopted
in 1968
Current flag of Italy, adopted
in 1948

22. Hernán Cortés
1485-1547

23. Tenochtitlán in 1519
Population – over 200,000

24. Frida on a boat at the Floating
Gardens of Xochimilco, Mexico
City, c. 1928-29

25. Museo Dolores Olmedo (view from the rear)
Doña Dolores
Olmedo

26. Mexico City as seen from the Torre Latinoamericana,
looking toward the Zócalo

28. San Ildefonso College
served as the National
Preparatory School from
1867 to 1978.

29. Museo Frida Kahlo

30. Museo Casa Estudio Diego
Rivera y Frida Kahlo

31. Museo Dolores Olmedo

32. Chapultepec Castle

33. Annette Norwood in
Mexico with a new
acquaintance. 1982.
Chapultepec Park.

34. Guanajuato, MexicoJosé, better known as Bucho

35. Carolyn Jones as Morticia
Addams
Paul Newman as
Butch Cassidy

36. An itinerant photographer with airplane backdrops.
Photo by Fritz Henle.

37. An itinerant photographer with airplane backdrops.
Photo by Fritz Henle.
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait,
1929

38. Frida Kahlo at
Xochimilco, Mexico,
1937. Photo by Fritz
Henle.

39. Father Miguel Hidalgo
Map of the State of Guanajuato,
including the cities of
Guanajuato and Dolores
Hidalgo (formerly Dolores)

40. Porfirio Díaz
“The Church, the army,
foreign capitalists, and
the great landowners
found it beneficial to
back his regime . . . .”
E. Bradford Burns

41. Having received a
government
scholarship, Rivera
left for Europe in
1907. He returned to
Mexico in 1921.
Diego Rivera, Self-Portrait,
1916
Diego Rivera in Paris,
1919

42. Frida in bed at opening in 1953, with
Concha Michel, Antonio Peláez, Dr.
Roberto Garza, Carmen Farell, Dr. Atl
Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo), Erupción
del Paricutín, 1943

43. Current cover of The
Wind That Swept
Mexico, with photo of
Pancho Villa’s Cavalry,
January 1914
Anita Brenner

44. Current cover of Idols Behind
Altars, with painting by Diego
Rivera, Flower Day, 1925
Photo of Fishermen Mending Nets (1926) taken by
Tina Modotti during the Idols Behind Altars trip

45. In The Arsenal (1928) Diego
Rivera includes both Frida Kahlo
(center) and Tina Modotti (far
right).
Tina Modotti and Frida Kahlo,
c. 1928

46. Diego Rivera’s
mural, Creation
(1922), in the Bolívar
Amphitheater of the
National Preparatory
School

47. Frida Kahlo and Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky and Diego
Rivera, 1938

48. The Díaz administration: Porfirio Díaz surrounded by the científicos

49. The Guggenheims (left to right): Benjamin, Murry,
Isaac, Meyer, Dan, Sol, Simon and William
William Randolph
Hearst

50. Madero family patriarch, Don
Evaristo Madero, who was born in
what is now Villa Unión, Coahuila,
Mexico

51. Don Francisco Madero (center),
one of Don Evaristo’s sons, with
two of his sons, Gustavo (left) and
Francisco Ignacio (right)

52. Francisco I. Madero reading a
peace message
Map showing San Luis Potosí

53. Pancho Villa, who was
from Chihuahua
Emiliano Zapata, who
was from Morelos

54. Lindley home in Largo,
Florida

55. Largo, FL, USA
1910: 291
1920: 599
2014: approximately 84,500
Mexico, D. F., Mexico
1911: 350,000
2009: approximately 8.84 million
Largo and Mexico City population

56. Zapatistas enter
Mexico City in late
1914

57. Venustiano Carranza on May
1, 1917, the day he became
Constitutional President
Zapata
Villa

58. Pancho Villa in presidential chair, Emiliano Zapata to his left

59. People in line for Red Cross soup, Mexico City, 1915

60. Original plan of the Kahlo home
The Kahlo home in Coyoacán

61. Frida Kahlo, Four Inhabitants of Mexico, 1938

62. Frida Kahlo, Pancho Villa
and Adelita [title by which
the work began to be known
in 1982], c. 1927

63. “When these armies moved it was like a mass
migration. . . . The age span for soldiering was from
about seven to seventy. . . . The women . . . pitched
in and fought if they felt like it.”
– Anita Brenner

64. Frida Kahlo, Café de los
Cachuchas [title proposed
by Oles], c. 1927, oil on
canvas
Frida Kahlo, sketch for Café
de los Cachuchas, c. 1927,
pencil on paper
Frida Kahlo, Los Cachuchas,
c. 1927, watercolor and
collage

65. Diego Rivera, The Blood of Revolutionary Martyrs
Fertilizing the Earth, 1926-1927

66. Besides being
displayed in Cuautla,
the body of Zapata was
photographed to prove
he was dead.

67. Diego Rivera, The Blood of Revolutionary Martyrs
Fertilizing the Earth, 1926-1927
Frida Kahlo, Portrait
of Luther Burbank,
1932

68. Diego Rivera, Wine, Women and
Flowers, in Ciro’s, which opened in 1943Frida Kahlo, Portrait
of Luther Burbank,
1932

69. Joan L. and Fred C. Thomson on
their honeymoon at the Hotel Ruiz
Galindo in Fortín de las Flores,
Veracruz, Mexico, 1947

70. Diego Rivera, Portrait of Natasha Gelman, 1943 Frida Kahlo, Portrait of
Natasha Gelman, 1943

71. Natasha and Jacques Gelman Cantinflas (Mario Moreno)

72. Diego Rivera, Portrait of Natasha Gelman,
1943
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of
Natasha Gelman, 1943
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of
Alberto Misrachi, 1937

73. Photograph of Alberto
Misrachi
Otto Dix, Self-Portrait
with Easel, 1926
Frida Kahlo, Portrait of
Alberto Misrachi, 1937

74. Current cover of The
Wind That Swept
Mexico: The History of
the Mexican Revolution
of 1910-1942

75. Chapultepec
Castle, which
became the
National Museum
of History
Lázaro Cárdenas on
horseback, greeting
the common folk of
MexicoLázaro Cárdenas joined
Madero’s army at the age of
15.

76. Frida Kahlo died
on July 13,
1954, at the age
of 47.
After Frida’s death, Lázaro Cárdenas walks to the
right of Diego Rivera, following the hearse to the
crematorium.

77. Special thanks to
Shaina Harkness
Frida Kahlo (with Globe), 1938. Photo by
Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

78. thank you