Letter to the Mother | Harvard Art Museums

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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2001.243: Letter to the Mother