Source: WTL digital photograph taken in the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City.
Comments: On August 18, 1929, three days before he married Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera began painting his murals in the Palacio Nacional. A month later he was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party precisely because he was working on commissions he received from the national government and because he was just named Director of the Academia de San Carlos. In September he was hospitalized due to stress and overwork. Meanwhile, however, he was commissioned by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow to paint murals at the Palacio de Cortés in Cuernavaca (<= Palacio de Cortés #8), in which he depicts the history of the State of Morelos from pre-Columbian times to the 1910-1920 Revolution. Rivera completed the giant murals in this stairwell in 1935.