The San Francisco Bay Area is home to
Stanford University which houses the
Hoover Institution that holds documents related to Frida Kahlo in archive of Bertram David Wolfe and Dr. Leo Eloesser. Both were friends with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
About Wolfe (from
Wikipedia) "Bertram David Wolfe (
January 19,
1896 –
February 21,
1977) was an
American scholar and former
Communist best known for writing Three Who Made a Revolution (1948), a biographical study of
Lenin,
Stalin and
Trotsky, and The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (
ISBN 0-8128-1259-X)." The Wolfe Paper Archives which are the papers were donated by his wife
Ella Goldberg Wolfe who donated them when she died on
8 January 2000. Ella was friends with Kahlo and
wrote letters.Link to summary of
Wolfe papers Bert Wolfe paper archives related to Frida Kahlo:
Correspondence 1913 - 1997
[ Folder 55 ]Rivera, Frida Kahlo de, 1933-1946 (8) Speeches and writing 1914 - 1976
[ Folder 27 ]
Frida Kahlo
de Rivera (in Spanish), Letras de Mexico, November 1938. Printed copy
Subject file 1903 - 1977
[ Folder 27 ]Rivera,
Frida Kahlo
Dr. Eloesser was born in San Francisco in 1881 and Frida was his patient at the
San Francisco General Hospital.
Link to
summary of Dr. Eloesser's paper which contain content related to Frida Kahlo. Unfortunately no list of content provided on Hoover Institution website.
Yesterday was the closing day of San Jose Museum of Art's Frida Kahlo exhibition. Unfortunately it was not well advertised as the central piece was by artist Rachel-Anne Palacios. 
She re-created a larger-than-life version of the self-portrait Frida made for Trotsky. Exhibition attendees were then invited to create butterflies with messages for Frida or anyone they wanted to remember. These were pinned to the curtains, creating a cloud of beautiful colors. 
There are so many that each day the staff removed the old butterflies to make room for new ones. Rachel is going to save some and hopefully take them to Museo Frida Kahlo. The rest will be burned in a ceremony to commemorate Frida. 
