The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo . Life of Frida . Timeline

1930	Frida Kahlo At three months Frida must terminate her pregnancy due to medical complications, and she finds out that in all likelihood, she will not be able to carry a child to term because of the injuries sustained in 1925. Frida and Diego move to San Francisco, Calif., and become reacquainted with Dr. Leo Eloesser, whom they had met in Mexico in 1926. He becomes a trusted friend and medical adviser. Works Completed: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (sketch) Self-Portrait Portrait of Lupe Marin World and U.S. Events The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, signed by President Hoover, brings U.S. tariffs to the highest protective level yet. Domestic unemployment exceeds 4 million. The planet Pluto is discovered. Grant Woods paints American Gothic. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944); Bauhaus (1919-1930); Art deco (1920-1930); Surrealism (1920-1930s); Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930s)

1931	Frida Kahlo The couple returns to Mexico for five months, and then travels back to New York City. The painting Frida and Diego Rivera is shown at the Sixth Annual Exhibit of the San Francisco Society of Women Artists. Works Completed: Frida and Diego Rivera (Wedding Portrait) Luther Burbank World and U.S. Events The Scottsboro Affair, a racially charged trial, gives birth to the civil rights movement. Salvador Dali finishes The Persistence of Memory. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944); Surrealism (1920-1930s); Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930s)

1932	Frida Kahlo Frida and Diego move to Detroit, Mich., where Frida suffers a miscarriage and spends 13 days in the Henry Ford Hospital. Frida receives a telegram informing her that her mother is dying. Frantically, she returns to Mexico. Her mother dies on Sept. 14. Works Completed: Henry Ford Hospital Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States My Birth World and U.S. Events Gandhi begins civil disobedience against British rule in India. Writers Sherwood Anderson, Erskine Caldwell and John DosPassos publicly endorse the Communist Party in the United States. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944); Surrealism (1920-1930s); Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930s)

1933	Frida Kahlo Diego receives a Rockefeller Center commission to paint a mural and the couple moves to New York. Diego portrays Lenin in the mural and the commission is rescinded. The couple returns to Mexico. Upon their return, Frida and Diego oversee the building of their new home; its design calls for two separate residences – one for Frida and one for Diego – linked by a bridge. Works Completed: Self-Portrait With Necklace Self-Portrait "Very Ugly" My Dress Hangs There World and U.S. Events Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected U.S. president and he works to implement the New Deal program. Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. Prohibition ends. Fiorella La Guardia is elected mayor of New York City, in place of the corrupt Tammany Hall. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944); Surrealism (1920-1930s); Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930s)

1934	Frida Kahlo Frida is again hospitalized, this time for foot surgery, and several toes are removed. Her third pregnancy is also terminated. Diego and Frida separate after he has an affair with her sister, Cristina. Mexico Gen. Lazaro Cardenas is elected president of Mexico and begins a program of agrarian reform, which redistributes land. World and U.S. Events The Federal Communications Commission is created to regulate interstate and international communications. The "Dust Bowl" loses 300 million tons of topsoil, which is blown into the Atlantic as a result of prolonged drought in the Midwest. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944); Surrealism (1920-1930s); Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930s)

1935	Frida Kahlo Frida has an affair with the sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Frida and Diego eventually reunite. Works Completed: A Few Small Nips Self-Portrait With Curly Hair World and U.S. Events Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), reasserting workers' rights to collective bargaining. The Social Security Act is made law. Artists in the Work Progress Administration are paid to decorate federal buildings. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944); Surrealism (1920-1930s); Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930s)

1936	Frida Kahlo Frida and Deigo help arrange asylum for Russian communist Leon Trotsky and his wife, Natalia. The couple raises money for the republicans fighting against Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, and Diego joins the Trotskyite International Communist League. Works Completed: My Grandparents, My Parents and I World and U.S. Events The Spanish Civil War and Stalin's "Great Purge" begin. Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected as U.S. president. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944);

1937	Frida Kahlo Leon Trotsky and wife, Natalia, move into the Blue House. Frida and Diego take precautions to protect their political guests. Frida has an affair with Trotsky. Works Completed: Portrait of Diego Rivera Behind the Curtains (self-portrait dedicated to Leon Trotsky) Self-Portrait With Bed My Nurse and Me Recuerdo Me and My Doll Memory Fulang-Chang and I World and U.S. Events The United Auto Workers go on strike. Police kill 10 union steel strikers in Chicago, which becomes known as the Memorial Day Massacre. Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappear while attempting to fly around the world. Pablo Picasso paints Guernica. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944);

1938	Frida Kahlo Surrealist poet and essayist André Breton and his wife, Jacqueline Lamba, stay with the Riveras. Although Frida finds André pretentious, he becomes one of her biggest admirers. Edward G. Robinson buys four self-portraits and Frida stages her first solo exhibition in New York at the Levy Gallery. Works Completed: Fruits of the Earth Self-Portrait With Monkey What the Water Gave Me Still Life With Prickly Pears Self-Portrait With Itzcuintli Dog Four Inhabitants of Mexico Girl With Death Mask The Frame Pitahayas World and U.S. Events Congress passes the Fair Labor Standards Act, establishing the minimum wage. Hitler annexes Austria. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944);

1939	Frida Kahlo Frida and American photographer Nikolas Muray become lovers. Frida sets sail for France and stays with the Bretons in Paris, travels to New York in March, and is back in Mexico by April. Frida and Diego are divorced by the end of the year. Trotsky quarrels with Diego. He and his wife move out of the Blue House into their own apartment. Works Completed: The Two Fridas The Suicide of Dorothy Hale Earth Itself (Two Nudes) World and U.S. Events Hitler invades Poland. Great Britain and France declare war. Grandma Moses becomes a popular folk artist. Art Movements Modernism (1890-1940); Futurism (1909-1944);

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