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April 28, 2014  |  This Week at MoMA
This Week at MoMA: April 28–May 4

Diego Rivera. May Day, Moscow. 1928. Watercolor and pencil on graph paper, 4 1/8 x 6 3/8" (10.5 x 16.2 cm). Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Diego Rivera. May Day, Moscow. 1928. Watercolor and pencil on graph paper, 4 1/8 x 6 3/8″ (10.5 x 16.2 cm). Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller


May Day plays an interesting role in The Museum of Modern Art’s history, as the occasion brought Jere Abbott and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., who would become MoMA’s first associate director and director respectively, together with Diego Rivera for the first time.