What is the title of Frida Kahlo’s 1932 painting about pregnancy loss in Detroit?

Henry Ford Hospital is Frida Kahlo’s 1932 painting about pregnancy loss in Detroit.

Kahlo painted the work after suffering a miscarriage while she and Diego Rivera were living in Detroit. The small oil painting shows Kahlo lying on a hospital bed, connected by red ribbons to symbolic objects and images, including a fetus, a pelvic bone, and medical equipment. The scene combines personal experience with a starkly direct visual account of medical and reproductive trauma.

The title refers to the Detroit hospital where the event occurred. Unlike a conventional hospital record, the painting uses floating symbols to express physical pain, grief, isolation, and the complicated relationship between the body and medical technology.

The work is often discussed alongside The Broken Column and other paintings in which Kahlo examined injury and bodily vulnerability. It also demonstrates how she transformed private experiences into carefully structured images rather than simple diary illustrations.