Object Details
- Creator
- Kahlo, Frida, 1907-1954
- Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
- Subject
- Packard, Emmy Lou
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Letter : 1 p. : handwritten ; 29 x 13 cm.
- Summary
- Translation: Diego my love- Remember that once you finish the fresco we will be together forever once and for all, without arguments or anything, only to love one another. Behave yourself and do everything that Emmy Lou tells you. I adore you more than ever. Your girl, Frida (Write me).
Identification by Emmy Lou Packard: San Francisco, 1940 The Spanish words in Frida's note to Diego she left in the Treasure Island Studio of Rivera's for painting the 75-foot fresco now at City College of San Francisco. Frida was leaving for a trip to New York (trial having to do with Lupe Marin; see letter) The envelope was a watch and jewelry depository while Frida was briefly in St. Luke's Hospital, placed there for observation by Dr. Leo Elloesser. - Citation
- Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo letter to Diego Rivera, 1940. 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
- 1940
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)739
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- Emmy Lou Packard Papers, 1900-1990
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Frescoes
- Hispanic American artists
- Travel
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_739
