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Labor and National Identity in Diego Rivera’s “Embroiderer”

Oklahoma City Museum of Art James C. Meade Friends’ Lecture presented on January 17, 2024. Labor and National Identity in Diego Rivera’s “Embroiderer” Presented by James Oles, PhD James Oles, PhD, presents a close reading of Diego Rivera's easel painting “La Bordadora (The Embroiderer),” which recently came to light after being lost for over 90 years. The painting depicts a woman on Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec embroidering a traditional huipil. The garment—a local product, painstakingly made in the home—was recorded on-site by Rivera with almost ethnographic accuracy. At the same time, it is an emergent symbol of Mexico’s post-revolutionary national identity, an embodiment of cultural mestizaje with Indigenous, European, and Asian roots. This lecture places “La Bordadora” in a rich, critical dialogue with overlapping and unexpected sources, from mass-market postcards to works by Frida Kahlo and Claude Monet. For more information about lectures and programming at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, visit okcmoa.com.