The softer side of Frida Kahlo is on exhibit at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, where an array of over 100 works by prominent 20th-century Mexican artists goes on display today.
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The paintings are from the Gelman Collection, which is widely considered one of the five most important private collections of Mexican modern art, and so the exhibit is something of a coup for the Pilsen museum. “When people heard we got the exhibit they were surprised, but everyone was telling us it makes perfect sense, because we are the experts on Mexican art,” said Eva Penar, marketing and media coordinator for the museum.
Also featured are works by Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco–known as “the Big Three” of Mexican muralism–as well as more recent works by Rufino Tamayo and Carlos Merida.
