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...next decade, Rivera did what is probably his greatest work: 124 frescoes in the Ministry of Education, a historical mural in the Cortés Palace at Cuernavaca, and his frescoes in the old expropriated chapel that has been part of Mexico's Agricultural School at Chapingo since 1920. Part of the chapel at Chapingo he decorated with an agricultural allegory in which the earth is personified by a series of nudes. They were modeled by Lupe Marin, the tempestuous, olive-skinned beauty who was his second wife...
Undertaker Joe. When he finished at Chapingo, Rivera decided it was time for a visit of homage to Moscow. He went there in 1927, and seemed to enjoy himself hugely. He stood for three icy hours on one occasion sketching a parade in the Red Square, later sold 45 watercolors of it to Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. He also met and sketched Stalin. He was in one of his pro-Stalin moods, and he felt moved and honored. Later, in one of his unpredictable flipflops, he changed his mind, wrote sarcastically (in Esquire...
Radicals seized upon these differences, encouraged uprisings at Chapingo Agricultural School. Fortnight ago, students demonstrated against "Fascist" Cedillo. The Minister of Agriculture peevishly complained that the undergraduates, many of them students he had appointed, should remain loyal. He wired Cárdenas at Yucatan: "Order War Department to present for my disposition 200 soldiers to be sent to Chapingo Agricultural School to stop riots. Should you fail to comply . . . please accept this as my resignation. . . ." The threat failed. Cárdenas replied, "Your resignation has been accepted." General Cedillo hurried his bulk off to the safety of his own bailiwick...
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