San Francisco – SoMa: SFMoMA – Diego Rivera’s Indian Girl with Coral Necklace
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Indian Girl with Coral Necklace
1926
Oil on canvas, 37 1/8 inc. x 27 in.
Diego Rivera, Mexican (Guanajuato, Mexico, 1886 – 1957, Mexico City, Mexico)
Acquired 1945, Collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, Albert M. Bender Bequest Fund purchase, © Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 45.3004
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) was opened in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied upper floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center. Under director Henry T. Hopkins, the museum added "Modern" to its title in 1975, and established an international reputation. In 1995 the museum moved to its current location, a large cubistic building designed by Mario Botta Architetto of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum at 151 Third Street.
