Dwight Ripley papers relating to Joan Miró
name: label: Creator
content: Ripley, Dwight
label: Names
content: Miró, Joan, 1893-
label: Names
content: Miró, Joan, 1893- -- Self-portraits
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1975 by S. Dillon Ripley, Dwight Ripley's cousin and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who came upon the sketch while going through Ripley's papers after his death.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ripley, Dwight
culture: label: Culture
content: Self-portraits
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ripley, an art patron, poet, painter, and botanist, NYC, was a friend to many artists in New York. Miro was a painter; b. 1893 in Barcelona, Spain.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Page (Poem: 1 p.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (Sketch, crayon, watercolor and pen and ink, col., image and text 18 x 27 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1945]-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ripldwig
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An abstract self-portrait by Miró, drawn in colored chalk on Hotel Gladstone [New York] stationery, with a note to Ripley signed and dated by Miró November 21, 1961. The drawing was framed by Ripley, and on the reverse he enclosed a sonnet (in Catalan), "En regardent 'Le Lever du Soleil' de Joan Miró," which Ripley composed in honor of Miro's first visit to New York in the 1940s. [Frame removed; poem separated from sketch for preservation purposes.]