She characterized Kent's work in this time with the following words: «I don't like Rockwell's cold, hard lines and forms in his paintings; nevertheless, this same technique in his black and white drawings has power.»[3] She was introduced to Elena Krylenko and Max Eastman, friends of Leon Trotsky.

Soon after this, she traveled to Mexico City, where she was welcomed by the son and daughter of José Vasconcelos Calderón, a former mexican education minister, who had initiated, among others, the muralist movement in 1921 by releasing statal commissions especially in school buildings.

They divorced in 1931 due to differences of the mindsets of the two, Freeman being a stalwart communist with Jewish orthodox background, Robinson, on the other hand, a fellow-traveller of liberal middle-class provenance.

Back in New York in 1930, Robinson came in contact with José Clemente Orozco, who may have connected her with Alma Reed, the owner of Delphic Studios, where she had the opportunity to show some of her Mexican drawings.

This caused great ill-feelings, for Rivera seemed to blame Robinson for his expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party in 1929, in which Joe Freeman was apparently involved.

[4] Another acquaintance was the artist from Utah, Paul Higgins (or Pablo O'Higgins, who often claimed to be born in San Francisco), who played an important role in mediating between US-American newcomers and the muralists in Mexico, especially Rivera, in the 1930s.

Robinson deepened her knowledge mainly of mexican colonial art travelling to various places and studying the collection of the Academia de San Carlos.

Another unhappy marriage with John Dallet, a descendant from a rich southern plantation owner family, in 1933, allowed Robinson to lead a relatively carefree life for the following years.

By intermediation of Luis Quintanilla she met members of the government and commanders of the Republican Army, including general Bibiano Fernández Osorio y Tafall who became a close friend of Robinson and led her to the Ebro front where normally no "tourists" were allowed.

In Spain she met David Alfaro Siqueiros who, like Antonio Pujol, was a stalwart communist, had joined the Republican Army and had been appointed a colonel, considering his experience as a soldier in the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s.

She left a rare description of the Goering barracks in Wedding, and of a talk to the director of the structure about the ways in which German promoted murals in comparison to the WPA.