Dolores Olmedo

Maria de los Dolores Olmedo y Patino Suarez (December 14, 1908 - July 26, 2002; Mexico City) was a Mexican businesswoman , philantropist and musician, better known for her friendship with Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego...

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...was close to many prominent artists and intellectuals of the time, including Juan Rulfo, Agustin Lara, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Dolores Olmedo and Jose Alfredo Jimenez. She partly retired in the late 1970s due to a 15 year-long battle with...

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...requested that the collection not be made public until 15 years after Kahlo's death. She died in 1954 and he died in 1957. But Dolores Olmedo, an art patron to whom Rivera entrusted the collection, decided that the material should remain...

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Only the ones that can be seen from the street are known," said Carlos Phillips, son of the mansion's original owner, Dolores Olmedo. Olmedo, a sophisticated art collector and friend of Rivera and his famous artist wife, Frida Kahlo, had...

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...spot for ceviche, whole grilled fish, seafood paella and cold Micheladas, beer served with lemon juice and salt in a frozen mug. Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino: Housed in a gorgeous hacienda that is home to strutting peacocks and a protected...

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...a foundation that supports the museum, accounting for about one-third of the operating budget, Hernandez said. Carlos Phillips Olmedo, director of three museums dedicated to Kahlo and her husband, the legendary muralist Diego Rivera,...

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...feet tall and weighed about 300 pounds. "He was very big and he had an enormous character," said Phillips, now director of Mexico's Dolores Olmedo Museum, which is named after his mother and features works by Kahlo and Rivera. "He had a way...

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A Feb. 11 Travel article misspelled the name of an art collector whose house is now a museum outside Mexico City. She is Dolores Olmedo Pati?o, not Dolores Olmeda Pati?o. A Feb. 11 KidsPost graphic about Valentine's Day candy was...

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...didn't conserve his own style," said Tibol, who oversaw the exhibition. "He put it at the service of the text." At the Dolores Olmedo Museum in southern Mexico City, a collection of some 50 portraits begins with a pencil drawing of...

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...A Feb. 11 Travel article misspelled the name of an art collector whose house is now a museum outside Mexico City. She is Dolores Olmedo Patino, not Dolores Olmeda Patino. Mexico City is awash in murals and museums and crowds that can...

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