Reference Files on Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Packard, Emmy Lou, 1914-1998
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content: Emmy Lou Packard Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.9 Linear feet (Box 5, 10, OV 11)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.packemmy, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Materials are arranged by document type.  Correspondence is alphabetically arranged by last name of correspondent.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The series has been partially scanned; slides, negatives, and photographs of artwork have not been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: These reference files consist of correspondence, notes, writings, photographs, and printed material documenting Packard's close business and personal relationship with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, including Packard's research for her planned, but unpublished book on the couple. The correspondence includes letters from Rivera, Kahlo, and Mexican mural painters Juan O'Gorman and Pablo O'Higgins. Photographs in this series include those of Rivera, Kahlo, Packard and others, both individually and together; many are quite personal and rare. Included are photographs of Rivera painting a portrait of Frances Rich; Rivera with Rich; Rivera holding hands with Packard; Rivera and Packard at the Alamo; Rivera and Packard in Coyoacan, Mexico, photographed by Kahlo; Kahlo and Packard photographed by Rivera; Rivera eating; Rivera playing with a spider monkey; Kahlo sitting in a doorway; Rivera and Kahlo at lunch in Coyoacan, Mexico; Kahlo in jeans leaning against a wall; and Rivera with pre-Columbian stone figures. This series also includes sketches by Rivera, Kahlo, and Covarrubias.