The WPA was not the only entity commissioning work. The Art in Action program hosted by the 1940 season of the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in the SF Bay invited Diego Rivera to design a mural for the SF City College. As in his mural for Rockefeller Center, Rivera’s politics got in the way until 1961 when it was finally installed in the college’s performing arts center. Now it is newly installed SF MoMA and though I had seen the install in progress the wow factor is all the more thrilling as it’s now complete. It is in impeccable condition and it takes the handy guide they have prepared to really dial in on the many referents to the topic of unity. Frieda Kahlo is front and center. She was with Rivera in SF while he was working finding her way in her own work. It is a masterpiece-a marriage of art and life. (That’s Paulette Goddard wife of Chaplin holding hands with Rivera practically under Frieda’s nose in the third panel. Pan American unity he said👀)