Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
     
Exhibitions

 

 

Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray

February 2, 2008 – March 30, 2008

Born in Hungary, Nickolas Muray became a successful New York fashion and commercial photographer known for his portraits of celebrities. Having experimented with color in his work from early on, he found his most colorful model in Frida Kahlo, whom he met in Mexico in 1931.  Muray’s photographs of Kahlo celebrate her deep interest in her Mexican heritage, her life, and the people significant to her. This exhibition is comprised of approximately 50 photographic portraits of Frida Kahlo dating mostly from 1937 to 1941.

Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray is on view courtesy of the collection of the Nickolas Muray Archives. Tour Development by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Missouri.

Classic Frida (with Magenta Rebozo) by Nickolas Muray  
Frida on Rooftop, New York by Nickolas Muray
  Frida with Nick by Nickolas Muray
         

Classic Frida (with Magenta Rebozo)
Nickolas Muray, 1892-1965
American (b. Hungary)
1939, Carbon process print

 

Frida on Rooftop, New York
Nickolas Muray, 1892-1965
American (b. Hungary)
1946, Carbon process print

 

Frida with Nick (detail), Coyoacán
Nickolas Muray, 1892-1965
American (b. Hungary)
1939, Inkjet print

 

Sponsors

The Delaware Art Museum received a MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections grant to support exhibition-related programming. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.


     
 
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