Carl Milles, Swedish Sculptor

Clara E. Sipprell (1885-1975)

Date

1939
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 8 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.
Mount: 10 3/4 x 8 in.
Inscriptions

Mount, Recto:
l.r. signed in graphite [below image]: Clara E.Sipprell
Mount, Verso:
l.r. in graphite: SP54
typed on attached paper note [by artist]: CARL MILLES, Swedish Sculptor \\ [in red pencil]: [ [typed]: He came to me one morning in New York to be included in ["in" struck out in red pencil] \ among the portraits I had made in Sweden. He hadn't been in \ Sweden for nine years. He asked eagerly "Do they remember \ me?" I laughed for in almost every important garden, in \ every place where a statue could be, was a statue by him. [in red pencil]: ...] \ x39 \ picos [typed]: I had a group of pictures I made of his garden in \ Stockholm. He looked at them with such longing and eagerness. \ He died in Sweden. \\ [in red pencil]: 60 [circled] \ p64
Collection Name

Clara E. Sipprell Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase through gift of The Dorothea Leonhardt Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.
Accession Number

P1984.1.143
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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