Frida Kahlo letter to Emmy Lou Packard

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Object Details

Creator

Kahlo, Frida, 1907-1954

Subject

Arensberg, Walter

Kaufmann, Edgar

Place of publication, production, or execution

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Physical Description

Letter : 4 p. : handwritten ; 28 x 22 cm.

Summary

Kahlo urgently asks Packard to persuade American art collector Walter G. Arensberg to purchase a different painting of hers than the original one he was interested in, Birth because she had already sold it to another collector, Edgar Kauffman.
Letter is in Spanish.

Citation

Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo letter to Emmy Lou Packard, 1941 December 15. Emmy Lou Packard Papers, 1900-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Date

1941 December 15

Record number

(DSI-AAA)748

Type

Correspondence

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Emmy Lou Packard Papers, 1900-1990

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Metadata Usage

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Record ID

AAADCD_item_748