In Detroit, Frida Kahlo, for the first time, consciously decides that she will paint about herself, and that she will paint the most private and painful aspects of herself. Never before had a woman put such agonized poetry on canvas as she did at this time in Detroit. After she miscarried, she channeled her grief into art, drawing while in the hospital, then painting the evocative self portrait Henry Ford Hospital. #MrBowerbird
