Ellen Lesperance
When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come

When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come

© 2018 Ellen Lesperance

When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come
When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come
ArtistAmerican, born 1971
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come
Date2018
MediumGouache and graphite on tea-stained wove paper; wool
DimensionsSheet: 22 1/4 × 30 1/8 in. (56.5 × 76.5 cm)
 Frame (outer): 26 × 34 × 1 1/2 in. (66 × 86.3 × 3.8 cm)
 Sweater (folded in half): 16 × 15 × 3 in. (40.6 × 38.1 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lynne Werner and Kerry Inman at Art + Paper 2019; and the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.229.A,.B
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, 2018; [Adam & Ollman, Portland, Oregon, 2018-2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History“New Materialism,” Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2018.

"Collectivity," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oct. 28, 2020 – July 27, 2021. [Inaugural Installation: Kinder Building 314: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite on bottom edge: ALL THE WARHEADS TURN TO RUST, UNTIL OUR DAYS ARE DONE, WE’LL HOLD OUR MOTHER EARTH IN TRUST FOR CHILDREN YET TO COME.
Verso: Watermark, lower right edge: BFK RIVES / ∞ FRANCE
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