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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.243
People
Elena del Rivero, American (Valencia, Spain born 1952)
Title
Letter to the Mother
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1995
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/272553

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, gouache, black ink and typing on white wove paper
Dimensions
22.9 x 16.6 cm (9 x 6 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, graphite, l.r.: Elena del Rivero/Feb. 95
  • watermark: FABRIANO

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[John Weber Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York, 1995, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.243
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elena del Rivero, "Portfolio: Letters to the Mother", The Paris Review (Fall 1996), no. 140, pp. 193-197, repr. p. 196
  • Christine Mehring and Pamela Lee, Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1997), cat. no. 14, pp. 50-51, repr. in color, and p. 19
  • Elizabeth Finch and Olga Fernández López, Elena del Rivero: A mano: Trabajos sobre papel, exh. cat., Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (Valencia, 2006), repr. p. 139, p. 284
  • Amy Eshoo, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2008), p. 155

Exhibition History

  • Drawing is another kind of language: Recent Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/12/1997 - 02/22/1998; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 06/17/1998 - 07/30/1998; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 09/04/1998 - 11/15/1998; Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Ahlen, 12/06/1998 - 01/31/1999; Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, 02/19/1999 - 04/25/1999; Fonds régional d'art contemporain/Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 05/21/1999 - 08/15/1999; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 09/26/1999 - 11/14/1999; Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 01/07/2000 - 03/12/2000; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 09/21/2000 - 12/10/2000; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 04/20/2001 - 06/10/2001
  • At Hand: Works on Paper by Elena del Rivero, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, 09/19/2006 - 12/10/2006; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, 03/28/2007 - 06/04/2007

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