Diego Rivera was one of Mexico’s most acclaimed painters whose large fresco works helped bring about the Mexican Muralist movement alongside José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siquerios. A committed Communist, much of Rivera’s imagery was based on his political views, as seen in his Detroit Industry Murals (1933). Rivera often depicted workers and their toil rather than the wealthy industrialists who were his patrons. The artist’s political convictions led to an infamous confrontation with Nelson D. Rockefeller, who commissioned Rivera to make a mural about progress. After its completion Rockefeller had the finished work chiseled off the wall because it included an image of Vladimir Lenin. “All painters have...