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The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know todayMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit.



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Celia Stahr

Celia Stahr is an art historian who teaches at the University of San Francisco. Formerly an affiliated scholar at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stahr focused on the Abstract Expressionist painter Elaine de Kooning. She subsequently published an article and essay on de Kooning's radical images of men. Stahr has also published essays on Frida Kahlo, Yong Soon Min, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, as well as the book Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist. Please join me on my blog in an ongoing conversation about what Frida Kahlo means to you: fridakahlojourney.com.



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