Source: WTL research files.
Painting: "Frieda (sic) y Diego Rivera" (1931).
Comments: In 1913, Frida Kahlo contracted polio, the permanent result of which was that her right foot was deformed. In 1922 she went to the national prep school to become a medical doctor. At the school she watched Rivera paint the mural called "La creación" (Creation; see: <= Diego Rivera #6). In 1925, she suffered a terrible accident between a bus she was riding in and a train (tram or trolley). She spent a month in the hospital. In 1928, she joined the Mexican Communist Party, where she again met Rivera, and they fell in love. They married in 1929. In the same year they both leave the Communist Party. In 1930, she suffers her first abortion. In 1931, her pain becomes severe, and her right leg becomes even more deformed. In San Francisco, she meets the doctor who will treat her for the rest of her life, Dr. Eloesser.