Frida Kahlo

Every entry, with its source

At 0

1. Jul 6, 1907

   Born in Coyoacan, Mexico City

   Her father Guillermo was a photographer.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 5

1. c. 1913

   Polio at six left her right leg thinner and shorter

   She started school later than her peers because of it.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 14

1. c. 1922

   Entered the National Preparatory School, aiming for medicine

   One of 35 girls among 2,000 students.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 18

1. Sep 17, 1925

   A bus crash at 18 broke her spine in three places

   Also her pelvis and right foot. Lifelong pain followed. She began painting while confined to bed.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 22

1. Aug 21, 1929

   Married Diego Rivera, the famous muralist

   A civil ceremony at Coyoacan town hall.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org
2. c. 1930

   Moved to San Francisco with Rivera

   Six productive months in which her folk-art style took shape. Her first exhibited work was a double portrait of the couple.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 24

1. c. 1932

   Painted Henry Ford Hospital after a miscarriage in Detroit

   One of several small retablo-style works from that year, including My Birth.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 31

1. Nov 1938

   First solo show, at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York

   Arranged after Andre Breton championed her. A success.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org
2. Mar 1939

   Paris exhibition; the Louvre buys The Frame

   The first work by a Mexican artist in the Louvre's collection.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 32

1. Nov 1939

   Divorced Rivera; painted The Two Fridas

   They stayed friendly. She kept managing his finances.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 33

1. Dec 8, 1940

   Remarried Rivera in San Francisco

   A simple civil ceremony, on his birthday.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 35

1. c. 1943

   Began teaching at La Esmeralda art school

   The Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 45

1. Apr 1953

   First solo exhibition in Mexico, attended from a bed

   Photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo staged it knowing she did not have long to live.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 46

1. Aug 1953

   Right leg amputated at the knee

   Gangrene. She wrote in her diary of centuries of torture.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 47

1. Jul 13, 1954

   Died at 47

   Her body lay in state at the Palacio de Bellas Artes under a Communist flag.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org