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When did Frida Kahlo teach at La Esmeralda in Mexico City?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

Frida Kahlo taught at La Esmeralda, the Ministry of Public Education’s School of Painting and Sculpture in Mexico City, from 1943 to 1954. During periods when her health prevented her from traveling to the school, she held classes from her home, La Casa Azul ("The Blue House").12