Diego Rivera's 'Man at the Crossroads' (commissioned and destroyed)

Diego Rivera was commissioned in 1933 to paint the mural 'Man at the Crossroads' for the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. The mural became the center of a public controversy when Rockefeller Center officials objected to Rivera's inclusion of an image of Vladimir Lenin, and the mural was subsequently destroyed before completion. The episode is a documented and frequently cited example of conflicts over public mural content in New York City.