These teams explored the engineering, conservation and scientific requirements for moving such a monumental, historic and fragile work of art. This exhibition is the culmination of four years of extensive investigation, research and preparation that brought together SFMOMA, CCSF, scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), an international team of conservators, Diego Rivera scholars, and Atthowe Fine Art Services, a local expert on art moving and rigging. On loan from City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and one of the most important works of public art the city, the mural will be displayed in the museum’s free-to-visit street-level Roberts Family Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (JUNE 24, 2021) - A project four years in the making, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announced the public opening of Diego Rivera’s largest portable fresco mural, Pan American Unity, on June 28, 2021, at 1 p.m. Grace McCann Morley, founding director, San Francisco Museum of Art, in a letter to Art Digest, December 1940 In intensity of symbolic images, complexity and depth of thought he is of course here going into something much more profound than anything he has previously attempted.” Dr. “I have seen it and believe it is a really great work - technically beyond anything Rivera had previously done….