Recuerdo (Memory)

Maxine Albro

Maxine Albro traveled to Mexico around 1929 where she studied with Pablo O'Higgins and made the acquaintance of Diego Rivera and his new wife Frida Kahlo. Albro later spent time studying with and assisting Rivera on some of his mural projects, including his mural in San Francisco.

This portrait is probably of a young Frida Kahlo, who would have been 25 years old in 1932. She married Rivera the first time in 1929 and they had moved to San Francisco in 1930, returning to Mexico in 1932, the year this lithograph was done.

The subject of the portrait wears dangling floral earrings and necklace and is surrounded by a Mexican folk art floral designs, sprigs of flowers tied with ribbons. The title "Recuerdo" is found within the flowers. "Recuerdo" translates to English as "Memory".

This work is from the estate of Joseph Allen, State Director of the California WPA Federal Art Project.