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Dr. Matthew Affron

About Dr. Matthew Affron

Dr. Matthew Affron is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the author of numerous books on Modern Art including Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 (Yale), The Essential Duchamp (Yale), and Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 (The Museum of Modern Art).

José Diego María Rivera, Sugar Cane, 1931, fresco, 145.1 × 239.1 cm © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — The brutal history of Mexico told through fresco in Depression era New York.

Diego Rivera in Depression-era New York

by Dr. Matthew Affron and Dr. Steven Zucker

José Diego María Rivera, Sugar Cane, 1931, fresco, 145.1 × 239.1 cm © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — A brutal history told for a modern American city, Mexican muralism in New York

Diego Rivera’s Sugar Cane

by Dr. Matthew Affron and Dr. Steven Zucker