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ID: 500030701
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030701
 
Record Type: Person
Kahlo, Frida (Mexican painter, 1907-1954)

Note: Mexican fantasy painter known as much for her turbulent personal life as her fanciful self-portraits. Kahlo learned to paint in 1925 after recovering from a debilitating bus accident that left her unable to bear children. The tragedy was often the subject of her paintings and was an integral part of her personal imagery. Her work can be seen as the product of a kind of exorcism by which she projected her anguish on to another Frida, in order to free herself from pain and at the same time maintain a hold of reality. Small in scale, primitive in style, and bold in color, the artist is sometimes shown as an animal, such a deer, which have lead artists and critics alike to label her work Surrealist. The artist eschewed this, maintaining that she painted images from her own life, not dreams. Also the subject of several works was her tumultuous marriage to artist Diego Rivera. One portrait shows the artist as a tiny figure in traditional Mexican dress, dwarfed in size by the large, brooding Rivera. In 1953, Kahlo's leg was amputated at the knee due to gangrene. She subsequently turned to drugs and alcohol to relieve her suffering. She died almost certainly by suicide in 1954. Her work received notoriety in the 1970's, becoming popular with feminist art historians and Latin Americans living in the United States.
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Names:
Kahlo, Frida (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Kahlo, Frida (Dutch-P,NA)
Kahlo, Frida (Spanish-P,NA,U)
Frida Kahlo (V,display)
Kahlo de Rivera, Frida (V)
Rivera, Frida (V)
Kahlo, De Rivera (V)
Kahlo y Calderón, Magdalena Carmen Frida (VBN,Spanish,NA,U)
Кало, Фрида (U)
קאלו, פרידה (U)
Rivera, Frida Kahlo de (U)
De Rivera, Frida Kahlo (U)
Khalo, Frida (U)
Calderón, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y (U)
Calderón, Frida Kahlo (U)
Kahlo, Frieda (U)
Rivera, Mrs. Diego (V)
Kahlo y Calderon, Magdalena Carmen Frieda (U)
Rivera-Kahlo, Frida (U)

Nationalities:
Mexican (preferred)
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Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Mexico City (Distrito Federal, Mexico) (inhabited place)
Died:  Mexico City (Distrito Federal, Mexico) (inhabited place)

Events:
injury:   17 September 1925, Kahlo was riding in a bus that collided with a trolley car  Mexico City (Distrito Federal, Mexico) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Kahlo, Guillermo  
..............  (German photographer working in Mexico, 1872-1941) [500115084]
collaborated with ....  O'Gorman, Juan  
................................  (Mexican architect, painter, and muralist, 1905-1982) [500085563]
friend of ....  Scheyer, Galka  
................  (American art dealer and collector, 1889-1945, born in Germany) [500349756]
spouse of ....  Rivera, Diego  
................  (Mexican painter, 1886-1957) [500025126]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Kahlo, Frida (I)

Biographies:
(Mexican painter, 1907-1954) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(Mexican painter 1907-1954) ..... [GRLPA]
(Mexican artist, 1910-) ..... [WCP]
(S.& C.American(Mexican) artist, 1907-1954) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Mexican painter, 1907-1954) ..... [AVERY]
(Mexican painter, 1907-1954) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Mexican painter, 1907-1954) ..... [NMWA]
(Mexican artist, 1907-1954) ..... [MoMA]
(Mexican painter, 1907-1954) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Кало, Фрида ........ [GRL]
......................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
קאלו, פרידה ........ [GRL]
......................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Calderón, Frida Kahlo ........ [GRL]
...........................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Calderón, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y ........ [GRL]
.............................................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
De Rivera, Frida Kahlo ........ [GRL]
............................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Frida Kahlo ........ [GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Kahlo, De Rivera ........ [WL-Courtauld]
.................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Kahlo de Rivera, Frida ........ [GRL, VP]
...........................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
...........................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Kahlo, Frida ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..........................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
..........................  Durozoi, Dictionnaire de l'art moderne (1992)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2963
..........................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Kahlo, Frida." Accessed 04/29/02
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
..........................  National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
..........................  NMWA database (2018-)
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 43245
..........................  Witt Library, Authority files
Kahlo, Frieda ........ [GRL]
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Kahlo y Calderón, Magdalena Carmen Frida ........ [GRL, Grove Art, VP]
.............................................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.............................................................................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Kahlo, Frida." Accessed 04/29/02
.............................................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Kahlo y Calderon, Magdalena Carmen Frieda ........ [RKD]
...............................................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 43245
Khalo, Frida ........ [GRL]
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Rivera, Frida ........ [GRLPA, RKD]
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 43245
............................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
Rivera, Frida Kahlo de ........ [GRL]
...........................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966
Rivera-Kahlo, Frida ........ [RKD]
.........................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 43245
Rivera, Mrs. Diego ........ [VP]
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82031966

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, MoMA, NMWA, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Art Index (1929-) v.38
....................  ARTbibliographies Modern (1969-) 22/1
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Durozoi, Dictionnaire de l'art moderne (1992)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n82031966
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2963
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Kahlo, Frida." Accessed 04/29/02
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Herrera, Frida Kahlo (1978)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n82031966
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  MoMA, Library Catalog (1976)
....................  NMWA database (2018-)
....................  NY Times obit.
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 43245
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 110981647
....................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q5588
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Kahlo, Frida." Accessed 04/29/02
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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