Henry Ford Hospital
Hospital on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida it is where Frida is taken after her 1932 miscarriage, and the title of the painting that launched her mature style.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frida | Hayden Herrera | turning point | Thirteen days after her miscarriage, and the source of her painting Henry Ford Hospital. |
Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)
Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight
Frida was rushed in the ambulance to the Henry Ford Hospital. Lucienne and Diego followed in a taxi.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: In Chapter 10, after her miscarriage on July 4, 1932, Frida is rushed here by ambulance and wheeled through a basement corridor of colored pipes. She stays thirteen days, bleeding and weeping, and asks for medical books so she can draw the lost child; she draws a self-portrait, then paints Henry Ford Hospital on sheet metal, with the Ford River Rouge complex on its horizon.
- Why it matters: The miscarriage and hospital stay launch Frida’s bloody, unflinching self-portraits in the retablo manner, the turn Herrera treats as the start of her original art.