Stock market, boceto del set del escenario escena 4, diseño para el ballet "Caballos de vapor (H.P.)"
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957)
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Stock market, sketch of the set staging, scene 4, for the Ballet H.P.
- Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller[Museum inv. no.: 505.1941.21]
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The present watercolor belongs to a group of studies that Diego Rivera executed for the ballet-symphony "Caballos de vapor, sinfonía de baile" (know as "Horse-Power" in English by the Mexican composer Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) in 1926–32. It was attributed to the dancer Catherine Littlefeld (1908-1951) and premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, on 31 March 1932 under the direction of Leopold Stokowski (1892-1977). "The 28-minute work […] contrasted the industrial North (meaning the U.S.) with the tropical South (meaning Mexico), demonstrating how the two cultures were mutually dependent." (https://catherinelittlefield.com/notable-works/h-p-horsepower (accessed: 10 April 2017))RIdIM images
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Bibliographic references
Belnap, Jeffrey. "Diego Rivera's greater America Pan-American Patronage, indigenism, and H.P", Cultural critique 63 (2015) 61-98.Parker, Robert L. "Carlos Chávez and the ballet: A study in persistence", Dance chronicle 8/3-4 (1985) 179-210.
Blitzstein, Marc. "Music and theatre—1932", Modern music 9/4 (1932) 164-168.
Taylor Gibson, Christina. "The reception of Carlos Chávez's Horsepower: A Pan-American communication failure", American music 30/2 (2012) 157-193.
Barzel, Ann. "A portrait of Catherine and Dorothie Littlefield", Dancing female: Lives and issues of women in contemporary dance, ed. by Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997) 25-27.