San Franciscans felt superior. They had not only seen his frescoes, they owned two important examples, in the California School of Fine Arts, in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. New Yorkers were eagerly awaiting the first Eastern showing of frescoes by Diego Rivera, the only man other than Henri Matisse ever to be given a one man show by the Museum of Modern Art.
Diego Rivera is only an excerpt of his name. His Mexican parents had him baptized Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody...
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