Dolores Olmedo

Altar to Dolores Olmedo at the Dolores Olmedo Museum for Day of the Dead.

María de los Dolores Olmedo y Patiño Suarez (December 14, 1908 – July 26, 2002; Mexico City) was a Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician, better known for her friendship with the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera; she appeared in some of his paintings.[1] Following Rivera's death in 1957, she and Rivera's daughter Guadalupe asked then president Adolfo López Mateos to consider Rivera and José Clemente Orozco's paintings historical monuments.

  1. ^ "Mi Héroe: Dolores Olmedo biography" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-08-22.